 Burgers N-wave

A localized negative-flux Burgers N-wave has initial profile $-U\theta$ on $|\theta |<L$ and zero outside, for $U,L>0$. The Cole-Hopf solution for a Burgers N-wave expresses its viscous evolution in Gaussian interval masses. In the vanishing-viscosity limit, the interior slope becomes $-U/(1+UZ)$ and its entropy-shock fronts move to $\pm L\sqrt{1+UZ}$.