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On contact discontinuities in multi-dimensional isentropic Euler equations

Analysis of PDEs 2017-07-04 v1

Abstract

In this short note we partially extend the recent nonuniqueness results on admissible weak solutions to the Riemann problem for the 2D compressible isentropic Euler equations. We prove nonuniqueness of admissible weak solutions that start from the Riemann initial data allowing a contact discontinuity to emerge.

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@article{arxiv.1707.00473,
  title  = {On contact discontinuities in multi-dimensional isentropic Euler equations},
  author = {Jan Březina and Elisabetta Chiodaroli and Ondřej Kreml},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00473},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures

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