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Shock formation in the compressible Euler equations and related systems

Analysis of PDEs 2012-05-23 v1

Abstract

We prove shock formation results for the compressible Euler equations and related systems of conservation laws in one space dimension, or three dimensions with spherical symmetry. We establish an LL^\infty bound for C1C^1 solutions of the one-D Euler equations, and use this to improve recent shock formation results of the authors. We prove analogous shock formation results for one-D MHD with orthogonal magnetic field, and for compressible flow in a variable area duct, which has as a special case spherically symmetric three dimensional flow on the exterior of a ball

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@article{arxiv.1205.4995,
  title  = {Shock formation in the compressible Euler equations and related systems},
  author = {Geng Chen and Robin Young and Qingtian Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4995},
  year   = {2012}
}
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