Asymptotic behavior of solutions to the generalized KdV-Burgers equation with slowly decaying data

Abstract

We consider the asymptotic behavior of the global solutions to the initial value problem for the generalized KdV-Burgers equation. It is known that the solution to this problem converges to a self-similar solution to the Burgers equation called a nonlinear diffusion wave. In this paper, we derive the optimal asymptotic rate to the nonlinear diffusion wave when the initial data decays slowly at spatial infinity. In particular, we investigate that how the change of the decay rate of the initial value affects the asymptotic rate to the nonlinear diffusion wave.