Traveling front of the cubic-flux Burgers equation
ID: traveling-front-of-the-cubic-flux-burgers-equation
For a front written in connecting at to nonzero at , one integration gives . The endpoint condition fixes . Setting gives a logistic equation and the displayed profile, with the sign of selected by . The propagation speed in the coordinate is , agreeing with the Rankine-Hugoniot condition for flux .
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