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We study viscous-dispersive shock waves with infinite oscillations of the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers (KdVB) equation. First, we establish detail structures of the shock waves, including the rates at which the local extrema converge to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Geng Chen , Namhyun Eun , Moon-Jin Kang , Yannan Shen

The paper is devoted to the study of shock formation of the 3-dimensional quasilinear wave equation \begin{equation}\label{Main Equation} - \big(1+3G^{\prime\prime}(0) (\partial_t\phi)^2\big)\partial^2_t \phi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-13 Shuang Miao , Pin Yu

We construct a new class of self-similar implosion profiles for the multi-dimensional compressible Euler equations. These profiles are smooth, genuinely non-isentropic, radially/spherically symmetric, and have explicit (closed-form)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Jiajie Chen , Steve Shkoller , Vlad Vicol

We study the vanishing viscosity limit of the one-dimensional Burgers equation near nondegenerate shock formation. We develop a matched asymptotic expansion that describes small-viscosity solutions to arbitrary order up to the moment the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Sanchit Chaturvedi , Cole Graham

We prove a stable shock formation result for a large class of systems of quasilinear wave equations in two spatial dimensions. We give a precise description of the dynamics all the way up to the singularity. Our main theorem applies to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Jared Speck

In this article, we provide notes that complement the lectures on the relativistic Euler equations and shocks that were given by the second author at the program Mathematical Perspectives of Gravitation Beyond the Vacuum Regime, which was…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Leonardo Abbrescia , Jared Speck

We study the stability and structure of shock formation in 1D hyperbolic conservation laws. We show that shock formation is stable near shocking simple waves: perturbations form a shock nearby in spacetime. We also characterize the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 John Anderson , Sanchit Chaturvedi , Cole Graham

It is well-known that shock will form in finite time for hyperbolic conservation laws from initial nonlinear compression no matter how small and smooth the data are. Classical results, including Lax [14], Liu [22], Li-Zhou-Kong [16],…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Geng Chen , Ronghua Pan , Shengguo Zhu

We consider a one-parameter family of 1D models for the 3D axisymmetric incompressible Euler equation with $C^{\alpha}$ vorticity and without swirl near the symmetry axis. For $\alpha = \frac13$, we impose a crucial normalization and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Jiajie Chen

In this paper, we study the uniqueness of the steady 1-D shock solutions for the inviscid compressible Euler system in a finite nozzle via asymptotic analysis for physical parameters. The parameters for the heat conductivity and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Beixiang Fang , Su Jiang , Piye Sun

We prove a definitive theorem on the asymptotic stability of point vortex solutions to the full Euler equation in 2 dimensions. More precisely, we show that a small, Gevrey smooth, and compactly supported perturbation of a point vortex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Alexandru Ionescu , Hao Jia

The study on the shock formation and the regularities of the resulting shock surfaces for hyperbolic conservation laws is a basic problem in the nonlinear partial differential equations. In this paper, we are concerned with the shock…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Yin Huicheng , Zhu Lu

The formation of a singularity in a compressible gas, as described by the Euler equation, is characterized by the steepening, and eventual overturning of a wave. Using a self-similar description in two space dimensions, we show that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-24 J. Eggers , T. Grava , M. A. Herrada , G. Pitton

We consider self-similar solutions to the full compressible Euler system for an ideal gas in two and three space dimensions. The system admits a 2-parameter family of similarity solutions depending on parameters $\lambda$ and $\kappa$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Helge Kristian Jenssen , Alexander Anthony Johnson

We study the Cauchy problem for the $3D$ compressible Euler equations under an arbitrary equation of state with positive speed of sound, aside from that of a Chaplygin gas. For open sets of smooth initial data with non-trivial vorticity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Leo Abbrescia , Jared Speck

The general problem of shock formation in three space dimensions was solved by D. Christodoulou in his 2007 monograph: 'The Formation of Shocks in 3-dimensional Fluids'. In this work also a complete description of the maximal development of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Demetrios Christodoulou , André Lisibach

We investigate exact solutions for isothermal shock problems in different one-dimensional geometries. These solutions are given as analytical expressions if possible, or are computed using standard numerical methods for solving ordinary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-20 Stephan C. Deschner , Tobias F. Illenseer , Wolfgang J. Duschl

We consider the isentropic compressible Euler equations in the half-line which govern the motion of gaseous fluids in contact with stationary vacuum boundary. We construct a large class of solutions that are initially smooth and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Juhi Jang , Jiaqi Liu , Nader Masmoudi

We give a rigorous construction of solutions to the Euler point vortices system in which three vortices burst out of a single one in a configuration of many vortices, or equivalently that there exist configurations of arbitrarily many…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Francesco Grotto , Umberto Pappalettera

We investigate the axisymmetric incompressible Euler equations without swirl in $\mathbb R^d$ with $d\geq 3$. For any $\alpha\in(0, \alpha_d)$, where $\alpha_d=1-2/d$, we construct a self-similar blow-up solution whose initial velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Feng Shao , Dongyi Wei , Ping Zhang , Zhifei Zhang