Asymptotic stability of rarefaction waves for 2 ∗ 2 viscous hyperbolic conservation laws

AbstractThis paper concerns the asymptotic behavior toward rarefaction waves of the solution of a general 2 × 2 hyperbolic conservation laws with positive viscosity. We prove that if the initial data is close to a constant state and its values at ±∞ lie on the kth rarefaction curve for the corresponding hyperbolic conservation laws, then the solution tends as t → ∞ to the rarefaction wave determined by these states