@article {2002, title = {A center manifold technique for tracing viscous waves}, journal = {Commun. Pure Appl. Anal. 1 (2002) 161-190}, number = {SISSA;85/2001/M}, year = {2002}, publisher = {American Institute of Mathematical Sciences}, abstract = {In this paper we introduce a new technique for tracing viscous travelling profiles. To illustrate the method, we consider a special 2 x 2 hyperbolic system of conservation laws with viscosity, and show that any solution can be locally decomposed as the sum of 2 viscous travelling profiles. This yields the global existence, stability and uniform BV bounds for every solution with suitably small BV data.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3075}, author = {Stefano Bianchini and Alberto Bressan} }