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The extreme heat fluxes characteristic of hypersonic flows significantly limit the flight envelope of hypersonic vehicles. The role of hydrodynamic instability and the onset of laminar to turbulent boundary layer transition is of notable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-21 L. Boscagli , G. Rigas , O. Marxen , P. J. K. Bruce

This paper concerns the dynamic stability of the steady 3-D wave structure of a planar normal shock front intersecting perpendicularly to a planar solid wall for unsteady potential flows. The stability problem can be formulated as a free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Beixiang Fang , Feimin Huang , Wei Xiang , Feng Xiao

Reflection of a shock from a solid wedge is a classical problem in gas dynamics. Depending on the parameters either a regular or a irregular (Mach-type) reflection results. We construct regular reflection as an exact self-similar solution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-10-02 Volker Elling

In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of the solutions to the two-dimensional incompressible free Navier Stokes equation (without forcing) with small viscosity $\nu$, when the initial data is close to stable monotone shear flows.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Hui Li , Weiren Zhao

We establish the global-in-time existence of solutions of the Cauchy problem for the full Navier-Stokes equations for compressible heat-conducting flow in multidimensions with initial data that are large, discontinuous, spherically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Yucong Huang , Shengguo Zhu

We consider the evolution of two-dimensional incompressible flows with variable density, only bounded and bounded away from zero. Assuming that the initial velocity belongs to a suitable critical subspace of L^2 , we prove a global-in-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Raphaël Danchin

When an upstream steady uniform supersonic flow impinges onto a symmetric straight-sided wedge, governed by the Euler equations, there are two possible steady oblique shock configurations if the wedge angle is less than the detachment angle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-18 Gui-Qiang G. Chen

In an influential 1964 article, P. Lax studied $2 \times 2$ genuinely nonlinear strictly hyperbolic PDE systems (in one spatial dimension). Using the method of Riemann invariants, he showed that a large set of smooth initial data lead to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Jared Speck , Gustav Holzegel , Jonathan Luk , Willie Wong

This paper deals with the one-dimensional formulation of Hughes model for pedestrian flows in the setting of entropy solutions, which authorizes non-classical shocks at the location of the so-called turning curve. We consider linear cost…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Boris Andreianov , Massimiliano Rosini , Graziano Stivaletta

In this paper, we established the global existence of supersonic entropy solutions with a strong contact discontinuity over Lipschitz wall governed by the two-dimensional steady exothermically reacting Euler equations, when the total…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Wei Xiang , Yongqian Zhang , Qin Zhao

The hypersonic flow stability over a two-dimensional compression corner is studied using resolvent analysis, linear stability theory (LST) and parabolised stability equation (PSE). The authors find that the interaction between upstream…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-25 Peixu Guo , Jiaao Hao , Chih-Yung Wen

We consider the initial-boundary value problem of a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model for incompressible two-phase flows with unmatched densities in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$. Our first aim is to study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Harald Garcke , Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

We consider solutions of two-dimensional $m \times m$ systems hyperbolic conservation laws that are constant in time and along rays starting at the origin. The solutions are assumed to be small $L^\infty$ perturbations of a constant state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Volker Elling , Joseph Roberts

Modeling rarefied hypersonic flows remains a fundamental challenge due to the breakdown of classical continuum assumptions in the transition-continuum regime, where the Knudsen number ranges from approximately 0.1 to 10. Conventional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ashish S. Nair , Narendra Singh , Marco Panesi , Justin Sirignano , Jonathan F. MacArt

A stability criterion is derived for self-similar solutions with perfect fluids which obey the equation of state $P=k\rho$ in general relativity. A wide class of self-similar solutions turn out to be unstable against the so-called kink…

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The paper is concerned with the free boundary problem for 2D current-vortex sheets in ideal incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics near the transition point between the linearized stability and instability. In order to study the dynamics of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-15 Alessandro Morando , Paolo Secchi , Paola Trebeschi

Colliding hypersonic flows play a decisive role in many astrophysical objects. In this paper, we look at the idealized model of a 2D plane parallel isothermal slab (CDL) and at symmetric settings, where both flows have equal parameters. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Doris Folini , Rolf Walder

The classical system of shallow-water (Saint--Venant) equations describes long surface waves in an inviscid incompressible fluid of a variable depth. Although shock waves are expected in this quasilinear hyperbolic system for a wide class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Sergey N. Alexeenko , Marina V. Dontsova , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We are concerned with a model of ideal compressible isentropic two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Introducing an entropy-like function, we reduce the equations of two-fluid MHD to a symmetric form which looks like the classical MHD…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Lizhi Ruan , Yuri Trakhinin

We present the first numerical simulations of the symmetric--hyperbolic theory for conformal dissipative relativistic fluids developed in [1]. In this theory, the information of the fluid dynamics is encoded in a scalar generating function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-26 Pablo Montes , Marcelo E. Rubio , Oscar A. Reula