TY - JOUR T1 - A center manifold technique for tracing viscous waves JF - Commun. Pure Appl. Anal. 1 (2002) 161-190 Y1 - 2002 A1 - Stefano Bianchini A1 - Alberto Bressan AB - In this paper we introduce a new technique for tracing viscous travelling profiles. To illustrate the method, we consider a special 2 x 2 hyperbolic system of conservation laws with viscosity, and show that any solution can be locally decomposed as the sum of 2 viscous travelling profiles. This yields the global existence, stability and uniform BV bounds for every solution with suitably small BV data. PB - American Institute of Mathematical Sciences UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3075 U1 - 1258 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER -