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We treat the 1D shock tube problem, establishing existence of steady solutions of full (nonisentropic) polytropic gas dynamics with arbitrary noncharacteristic data. We present also numerical experiments indicating uniqueness and…
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We show that the multi-dimensional compressible Euler system for isothermal flow of an ideal, polytropic gas admits global-in-time, radially symmetric solutions with unbounded amplitudes due to wave focusing. The examples are similarity…
We establish the global existence of weak entropy solutions for 1D isentropic gas dynamics with general pressure laws ($\gamma > 1$). To address vacuum degeneracy, we introduce a novel structural regularization via a "Synchronized Dual…
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We study the two-dimensional structural stability of shock waves in a compressible isentropic inviscid elastic fluid in the sense of the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of discontinuous shock front solutions of the equations of…
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We consider a heavy piston in an infinite cylinder surrounded by ideal gases on both sides. The piston moves under elastic collisions with gas atoms. We assume here that the gases always exert equal pressures on the piston, hence the piston…
We study the resolution of discontinuous singularities in gas dynamics via multi-dimensional rarefaction waves. While the mechanism is well-understood in one spatial dimension, the rigorous construction in higher dimensions has remained a…
In this article, we study the gas expansion problem by turning a sharp corner into vacuum for the two-dimensional pseudo-steady compressible Euler equations with a convex equation of state. This problem can be considered as interaction of a…