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Contact discontinuities for 3-D axisymmetric inviscid compressible flows in infinitely long cylinders

Analysis of PDEs 2019-04-19 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We prove the existence of a subsonic axisymmetric weak solution (u,ρ,p)({\bf u},\rho,p) with u=uxex+urer+uθeθ{\bf u}=u_x{\bf e}_x+u_r{\bf e}_r+u_\theta{\bf e}_{\theta} to steady Euler system in a three-dimensional infinitely long cylinder N\mathcal{N} when prescribing the values of the entropy (=pργ)(=\frac{p}{\rho^{\gamma}}) and angular momentum density (=ruθ)(=ru_{\theta}) at the entrance by piecewise C2C^2 functions with a discontinuity on a curve on the entrance of N\mathcal{N}. Due to the variable entropy and angular momentum density (=swirl) conditions with a discontinuity at the entrance, the corresponding solution has a nonzero vorticity, nonzero swirl, and contains a contact discontinuity r=gD(x)r=g_D(x). 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, nonzero vorticity, and nonzero angular momentum density. We also analyze the asymptotic behavior of the solution at far field.

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@article{arxiv.1901.04996,
  title  = {Contact discontinuities for 3-D axisymmetric inviscid compressible flows in infinitely long cylinders},
  author = {Myoungjean Bae and Hyangdong Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.04996},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

To be published in Journal of Differential Equations (2019); arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1810.04411