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Contact discontinuities for 2-D inviscid compressible flows in infinitely long nozzles

Analysis of PDEs 2019-04-19 v2

Abstract

We prove the existence of a subsonic weak solution (u,ρ,p)({\bf u}, \rho, p) to steady Euler system in a two-dimensional infinitely long nozzle when prescribing the value of the entropy (=pργ)(= \frac{p}{\rho^{\gamma}}) at the entrance by a piecewise C2C^2 function with a discontinuity at a point. Due to the variable entropy condition with a discontinuity at the entrance, the corresponding solution has a nonzero vorticity and contains a contact discontinuity x2=gD(x1)x_2=g_D(x_1). We construct such a solution via Helmholtz decomposition. The key step is to decompose the Rankine-Hugoniot conditions on the contact discontinuity via Helmholtz decomposition so that the compactness of approximated solutions can be achieved. Then we apply the method of iteration to obtain a piecewise smooth subsonic flow with a contact discontinuity and nonzero vorticity. We also analyze the asymptotic behavior of the solution at far field.

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@article{arxiv.1810.04411,
  title  = {Contact discontinuities for 2-D inviscid compressible flows in infinitely long nozzles},
  author = {Myoungjean Bae and Hyangdong Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04411},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

To be published in SIAM J. Math. Anal. (2019)