%0 Journal Article %J Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics. Volume 19, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 449-460 %D 2012 %T On the critical behavior in nonlinear evolutionary PDEs with small viscocity %A Boris Dubrovin %A Maria Elaeva %X We address the problem of general dissipative regularization of the quasilinear transport equation. We argue that the local behavior of solutions to the regularized equation near the point of gradient catastrophe for the transport equation is described by the logarithmic derivative of the Pearcey function, a statement generalizing the result of A.M.Il\\\'in \\\\cite{ilin}. We provide some analytic arguments supporting such conjecture and test it numerically. %B Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics. Volume 19, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 449-460 %I SISSA %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6465 %1 6409 %2 Mathematics %4 1 %# MAT/07 FISICA MATEMATICA %$ Submitted by Boris Dubrovin (dubrovin@sissa.it) on 2013-02-08T11:28:04Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\ndubrovin_elaeva.pdf: 8618184 bytes, checksum: 3c56d1922af7001581ca4ceb4c79cc3b (MD5) %R 10.1134/S106192081204005X