Asymptotic attraction with algebraic rates toward fronts of dispersive–diffusive Burgers equations

Abstract Burgers equation is a classic model, which arises in numerous applications. At its very core, it is a simple conservation law, which serves as a toy model for various dynamics phenomena. In particular, it supports explicit heteroclinic solutions, both fronts and backs. Their stability has been studied in detail. There has been substantial interest in considering dispersive and/or diffusive modifications, which present novel dynamical paradigms in such a simple setting. More specifically, the KdV–Burgers model has been shown to support unique fronts (not all of them monotone!) with fixed values at $\pm \infty$ . Many articles, among which [11], [9] and [10], have studied the question of stability of monotone (or close to monotone) fronts. In a breakthrough paper [2], the authors have extended these results in several different directions. They have considered a wider range of models. The fronts do not need to be monotone but are subject of a spectral condition instead. Most importantly, the method allows for large perturbations, as long as the heteroclinic conditions at $\pm \infty$ are met. That is, there is asymptotic attraction to the said fronts or equivalently the limit set consists of one point. The purpose of this paper is to extend the results of [2] by providing explicit algebraic rates of convergence as $t\to \infty$ . We bootstrap these results from the results in [2] using additional energy estimates for two important examples, namely KdV–Burgers and the fractional Burgers problem. These rates are likely not optimal, but we conjecture that they are algebraic nonetheless.