This thesis is organized around two aspects of the study of partial differentialequations. In a first part, we study the stability of periodic solutions for conservationlaws. First, we prove asymptotic L1-stability of periodic solutions of scalarinhomogeneous conservation laws. Then, we show a result on structural stability ofroll-waves. More precisely, we prove that periodic solutions of a hyperbolic systemwithout viscosity are the limits of the solutions of the problem with viscosity, as theviscous term tends to 0. In a second part, we study a system of partial differentialequations derived from biology: the model of Patlak-Keller-Segel in dimension 2, describingthe phenomena of chemotaxis. For this model, we construct a finite-volumescheme, which approaches the solution while keeping some properties of the system:positivity, conservation of mass, energy estimate.
