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Existence and spectral stability analysis of viscous-dispersive shock profiles for isentropic compressible fluids of Korteweg type

R. Folino , C. Lattanzio , R. G. Plaza This is my paper

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The system admits viscous-dispersive shock profiles of arbitrary amplitude whose essential spectrum is stable independent of strength and whose point spectrum is stable for small amplitudes under a structural condition.

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The authors examine the one-dimensional dynamics of an isentropic compressible fluid that incorporates both viscosity and internal capillarity, where the coefficients are arbitrary smooth positive nonlinear functions of specific volume. They establish that the system supports traveling wave solutions connecting two constant states at a speed obeying the Rankine-Hugoniot jump relations and the Lax entropy condition; these solutions, termed viscous-dispersive shock profiles, exist for shocks of any amplitude and are unique up to translation. The paper next studies spectral stability of the profiles by linearizing the governing equations about the wave and examining the resulting operator on an appropriate energy space. It shows that the essential spectrum lies entirely in the stable half-plane regardless of shock size, while energy estimates additionally place the point spectrum in the stable half-plane when the amplitude is small and a structural condition on the associated inviscid shock holds.

Core claim

Under very general circumstances the system admits traveling wave solutions connecting two constant states and traveling with a certain speed that satisfy the classical Rankine-Hugoniot and Lax entropy conditions, and hence called viscous-dispersive shock profiles. These traveling wave solutions are unique up to translations and have arbitrary amplitude. The essential spectrum of the linearized operator around the profile (posed on an appropriate energy space) is stable, independently of the shock strength. With the aid of energy estimates, it is also proved that the point spectrum is also stable, provided that the shock amplitude is sufficiently small and a structural condition on the invic

What carries the argument

Viscous-dispersive shock profiles as traveling waves obeying Rankine-Hugoniot and Lax conditions, whose stability is read from the essential and point spectra of the linearized operator on an energy space.

If this is right

  • Profiles exist with arbitrary amplitude whenever the Rankine-Hugoniot and Lax conditions can be satisfied.
  • Essential-spectrum stability holds uniformly for shocks of any strength.
  • Point-spectrum stability follows for all sufficiently small shocks that meet the structural condition.
  • Linear stability in the chosen energy space is therefore obtained for those small profiles.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the structural condition can be verified for concrete equations of state, then small-shock linear stability follows immediately from the given estimates.
  • The spectral framework may extend to time-dependent or nonlinear orbital stability questions not addressed here.
  • Analogous traveling-wave constructions and spectrum arguments could apply to other dispersive regularizations of hyperbolic conservation laws.

Load-bearing premise

A structural condition on the inviscid shock holds so that energy estimates can control the point spectrum for small-amplitude profiles.

What would settle it

A concrete computation of the linearized spectrum for a small-amplitude profile in a case where the structural condition on the inviscid shock fails, revealing an eigenvalue with positive real part.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2507.00374 by C. Lattanzio, R. Folino, R. G. Plaza.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Stable and unstable manifolds for (2.10) and (3.1) at (V +, 0). vectors νu(V +) with τu(V +) and νs(V +) with τs(V +), defined in (3.7) and (3.4). The relative positions of the two manifolds are depicted in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Plot of the flow of the planar system (2.10) in the phase space. The viscous-dispersive shock profile corresponds to the hetero￾clinc trajectory in red color. The flow of the system in the (V, Q)-space is represented in light blue color (color online). concreteness, we consider a viscous-capillar compressible fluid endowed with the following nonlinear pressure, viscosity and capillarity coefficients, p(v) … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Profile x 7→ V (x) (in red color) for the specific volume of the viscous-dispersive shock profile (color online). Notice that this is an oscillatory, non-monotone, viscous-dispersive shock profile. The profile function for the specific volume, x 7→ V (x), is depicted in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Fredholm borders, σF (Le), as the curves λ = λ − 1,2 (ξ) (in blue) and λ = λ + 1,2 (ξ) (in orange) for ξ ∈ R, which are solutions to the dispersion relation (5.4). The essential spectrum of Le is sharply bounded to the left. The accumulation of essential spectrum near the origin is manifest (color online). Now let λ ∈ Ω. From consistent splitting (Proposition 5.3) and hyperbolicity of M±(λ) we clearly obta… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Stable and unstable manifolds for (A.7) and (A.8) at (R+, 0). The analysis of monotonicity of the profiles for small shocks is valid also for the model in Eulerian coordinates, and the corresponding results can be proved following the same lines of Section 4; we omit all details here. Theorem A.2. Assume the end states (R±, J±) and the speed s define a 1–shock (resp. 2–shock) for the Euler equation (A.4) a… view at source ↗
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The system describing the dynamics of a compressible isentropic fluid exhibiting viscosity and internal capillarity in one space dimension and in Lagrangian coordinates, is considered. It is assumed that the viscosity and the capillarity coefficients are nonlinear smooth, positive functions of the specific volume, making the system the most general case possible. It is shown, under very general circumstances, that the system admits traveling wave solutions connecting two constant states and traveling with a certain speed that satisfy the classical Rankine-Hugoniot and Lax entropy conditions, and hence called viscous-dispersive shock profiles. These traveling wave solutions are unique up to translations and have arbitrary amplitude. The spectral stability of such viscous-dispersive profiles is also considered. It is shown that the essential spectrum of the linearized operator around the profile (posed on an appropriate energy space) is stable, independently of the shock strength. With the aid of energy estimates, it is also proved that the point spectrum is also stable, provided that the shock amplitude is sufficiently small and a structural condition on the inviscid shock is fulfilled.

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Summary. The manuscript proves existence of traveling-wave viscous-dispersive shock profiles for the one-dimensional isentropic compressible Korteweg-type system with nonlinear smooth positive viscosity and capillarity coefficients depending on specific volume. These profiles connect constant states, satisfy the classical Rankine-Hugoniot and Lax entropy conditions, are unique up to translation, and exist for arbitrary amplitudes. It further establishes spectral stability of the linearized operator on a suitable energy space: the essential spectrum is stable independently of shock strength, while the point spectrum is stable for sufficiently small amplitudes provided a structural condition on the underlying inviscid shock holds.

Significance. If the derivations hold, the work extends shock-profile theory to the most general nonlinear positive coefficients, separating essential-spectrum stability (which holds unconditionally) from point-spectrum stability (which requires small amplitude and the structural condition). This separation, together with the arbitrary-amplitude existence result under only RH and Lax conditions, strengthens the technical contribution to viscous-dispersive fluid dynamics.

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  1. [Abstract and stability analysis] Abstract and stability theorem: the structural condition on the inviscid shock required for point-spectrum stability of small-amplitude profiles is invoked but never formulated explicitly, nor is it shown to follow from the general assumptions of nonlinear positive viscosity and capillarity. Because the existence result holds for arbitrary amplitudes without this condition, the small-amplitude stability claim does not automatically inherit from the existence theorem; if the condition fails for some admissible shocks, the energy estimates do not close.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We appreciate the positive evaluation of the significance of the existence and spectral stability results for viscous-dispersive shock profiles in the general nonlinear setting. We address the major comment below and will incorporate the suggested clarifications in the revised version.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and stability analysis] Abstract and stability theorem: the structural condition on the inviscid shock required for point-spectrum stability of small-amplitude profiles is invoked but never formulated explicitly, nor is it shown to follow from the general assumptions of nonlinear positive viscosity and capillarity. Because the existence result holds for arbitrary amplitudes without this condition, the small-amplitude stability claim does not automatically inherit from the existence theorem; if the condition fails for some admissible shocks, the energy estimates do not close.

    Authors: We agree that the structural condition should be stated explicitly for clarity. In the revised manuscript we will add its precise formulation (the sign condition on the derivative of the pressure function evaluated along the inviscid Hugoniot locus that guarantees the linearized inviscid operator has no unstable eigenvalues) directly into the statement of the small-amplitude point-spectrum stability theorem and into the abstract. We will also insert a short remark in the stability section explaining that this condition is independent of the nonlinear viscosity and capillarity assumptions (which are used only for existence and for the essential-spectrum analysis) and is needed to close the energy estimates for the point spectrum when the shock amplitude is small. The existence theorem itself remains unchanged, as it relies solely on the Rankine-Hugoniot and Lax conditions. revision: yes

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No circularity; existence and stability rest on direct construction and energy estimates

full rationale

The derivation constructs viscous-dispersive shock profiles satisfying classical Rankine-Hugoniot and Lax conditions for arbitrary amplitude, then establishes essential spectrum stability independently of strength and point-spectrum stability for small amplitudes under an explicit additional structural assumption on the inviscid shock. These steps rely on direct ODE analysis and energy estimates rather than any self-definitional reduction, fitted-input prediction, or load-bearing self-citation. The structural condition is stated as a separate hypothesis and does not collapse the central claims to the paper's own inputs by construction.

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The central claims rest on standard background facts from hyperbolic conservation laws and on the modeling assumption that viscosity and capillarity are positive smooth functions of specific volume. No free parameters or newly postulated entities appear in the abstract.

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  • domain assumption Viscosity and capillarity coefficients are smooth positive functions of specific volume.
    Stated explicitly as the setup making the system the most general case possible.
  • standard math Traveling waves must satisfy Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions and Lax entropy conditions.
    Invoked as the classical requirements that define admissible shock profiles.

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