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We consider linear and nonlinear waves in a stratified hydrostatic fluid within a channel of variable area, under the restriction of one-dimensional flow. We derive a modified version of Riemann's invariant that is related to the wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-07 Christopher D. Matzner , Stephen Ro

High frequency limit for most of wave phenomena is known as quasiclassical limit or ray optics limit. Propagation of waves in this limit is described in terms of wave fronts and rays. Wave front is a surface of constant phase whose points…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

In this work we present a general strategy for constructing multidimensional Riemann solvers with a single intermediate state, with particular attention paid to detailing the two-dimensional Riemann solver. This is accomplished by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dinshaw S. Balsara

Motivated by the foam displacement in porous media with linear adsorption, we extended the existing framework for two-phase flow containing an active tracer described by a non-strictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws. We solved the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-18 G. C. Fritis , P. S. Paz , L. F. G. Lozano , G. Chapiro

We show that 1-D rarefaction wave solutions are unique in the class of bounded entropy solutions to the multidimensional compressible Euler system. Such a result may be viewed as a counterpart of the recent examples of non-uniqueness of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-12 Eduard Feireisl , Ondřej Kreml

We study the one-dimensional Riemann problem for a hyperbolic system of three conservation laws of Temple class. This systems it is a simplification of a recently propose system of five conservations laws by Bouchut and Boyaval that model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Richard De la cruz , Juan C. Juajibioy , Juan Galvis , Leonardo Rendón

We consider a system of two conservation laws and provide a detailed description of both classical and non-classical self-similar Riemann solutions. In particular, we demonstrate the existence of overcompressive delta shocks as singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Josh Culver , Aubrey Ayres , Evan Halloran , Ryan Lin , Emily Peng , Charis Tsikkou

A fourth-order dispersive flow equation for closed curves on the canonical two-dimensional unit sphere arises in some contexts in physics and fluid mechanics. In this paper, a geometric generalization of the sphere-valued model is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Eiji Onodera

Scalar conservation laws with non-convex fluxes have shock wave solutions that violate the Lax entropy condition. In this paper, such solutions are selected by showing that some of them have corresponding traveling waves for the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Michael Shearer , Kimberly R. Spayd , Ellen R. Swanson

Explicit harmonic and wave maps are typically available only in highly symmetric or constant-curvature settings, where additional symmetry or integrability structures are present. We develop a reduction framework for pseudo-Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Anestis Fotiadis , Giannis Polychrou

In this paper we present a genuinely two-dimensional HLLC Riemann solver. On logically rectangular meshes, it accepts four input states that come together at an edge and outputs the multi-dimensionally upwinded fluxes in both directions.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Dinshaw S. Balsara

The motivation of this study is to find the Riemann solutions of the Aw-Rascle model with a more realistic version of extended Chaplygin gas. Firstly, we establish the Riemann solutions with two different structures, viz., a shock wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Priyanka , M. Zafar

This paper is concerned with locally damped semilinear wave equations defined on compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary. We present a construction of measure-controlled damping regions which are sharp in the sense that their summed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-15 M. M. Cavalcanti , T. F. Ma , P. Marín-Rubio , P. N. Seminario-Huertas

Motivated by applications in computational anatomy, we consider a second-order problem in the calculus of variations on object manifolds that are acted upon by Lie groups of smooth invertible transformations. This problem leads to solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-03 François Gay-Balmaz , Darryl D. Holm , David M. Meier , Tudor S. Ratiu , François-Xavier Vialard

The Riemann problem for the discrete conservation law $2 \dot{u}_n + u^2_{n+1} - u^2_{n-1} = 0$ is classified using Whitham modulation theory, a quasi-continuum approximation, and numerical simulations. A surprisingly elaborate set of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-21 Patrick Sprenger , Christopher Chong , Emmanuel Okyere , Michael Herrmann , P. G. Kevrekidis , Mark A. Hoefer

We illustrate the flow or wave character of the metrics and curvatures of evolving manifolds, introducing the Riemann flow and the Riemann wave via the bialternate product Riemannian metric. This kind of evolutions are new and very natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-22 Constantin Udriste

We introduce a second-order, central-upwind finite volume method for the discretization of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws posed on the two-dimensional sphere. The semi-discrete version of the proposed method is based on a technique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Abdelaziz Beljadid , Philippe G. LeFloch

We have generalised the exact solution of the Riemann problem in special relativistic hydrodynamics for arbitrary tangential flow velocities. The solution is obtained by solving the jump conditions across shocks plus an ordinary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Pons , J. Ma. Marti , E. Muller

We consider the problem of resolving all pairwise interactions of shock waves, contact waves, and rarefaction waves in 1-dimensional flow of an ideal polytropic gas. Resolving an interaction means here to determine the types of the three…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Geng Chen , Erik E. Endres , Helge Kristian Jenssen

We study the resolution of discontinuous singularities in gas dynamics via rarefaction waves. The mechanism is well-understood in the one dimensional case. We will prove the non-nonlinear stability of the Riemann problem for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Tian-Wen Luo , Pin Yu