Existence of Periodic Solutions to Steady Viscous Burgers Equation with a General Force

Abstract

In this paper, we will construct periodic solutions to the viscous steady Burgers equation with an external force $f(x)$, based on the following formal expansion $u^{\epsilon }(x)=u_0(x)+\epsilon u_1(x)+\cdots +{\epsilon }^n{u}_n(x)+\cdots$, where $\epsilon \ge 0$ represents the viscosity and $u_0(x)$ is a solution to non-viscous steady Burgers equation with the external force $f(x)$. We will focus on the solutions which are uniformly bounded with respect to the viscosity. In our previous work, starting from $u_0=-(2+\cos x)$, the authors constructed the periodic solutions to the viscous steady Burgers equation with the external force $f=u_0(x)u_{0x}=-2\sin x-\sin x\cos x$. In this paper, we will extend the main result obtained in our previous work and construct the solutions starting from general $u_0$ and $f$ satisfying the non-viscous steady Burgers equation $u_0(x)u_{0x}=f$. It will be shown that there exists a ${\epsilon }_0>0$, which depends on $n$, such that for any $0<\epsilon <{\epsilon }_0$, the viscous steady Burgers equation with the external force $f$ has a periodic solution $u^{\epsilon }(x)\in C^2([0,2\pi ])$, satisfying $|u^{\epsilon }(x)-u_0(x)-\epsilon u_1(x)-\cdots -{\epsilon }^n{u}_n(x)|\le C{\epsilon }^{n+1}$, where $C>0$ is a constant which depends on $n$, but is independent of $\epsilon$. Compared with Jauslin-Kreiss-Moser's result, we present a new approach to construct periodic solutions to the viscous steady Burgers with a general external force. The constructed solutions will tend to the ones of the non-viscous Burgers equation with a sharper convergence rate (up to higher order) when the viscosity vanishes.

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