The stability of travelling fronts for general scalar viscous balance law

This paper is concerned with the existence and stability of travelling front solutions for some general scalar viscous balance law. By shooting methods we prove the existence of some class of travelling fronts for any positive viscosity. Further by analytic semigroup theory and detailed spectral analysis, we show that the travelling fronts obtained are asymptotically stable in some appropriate exponentially weighted space. Especially for all sufficiently small viscosity, the travelling waves are proved to be uniformly exponentially stable in the same weighted space.  2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.