 Viscous Burgers equation (source code)

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= Viscous Burgers equation
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The viscous Burgers equation adds diffusion with viscosity $\nu>0$ to nonlinear transport. Smooth initial data remain smooth, and the diffusion regularizes the shocks of the <Inviscid Burgers equation>.

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