Relative entropy and compressible potential flow
Analysis of PDEs
2015-04-07 v2
Abstract
Compressible (full) potential flow is expressed as an equivalent first-order system of conservation laws for density and velocity . Energy is shown to be the only nontrivial entropy for that system in multiple space dimensions, and it is strictly convex in if and only if . For motivation some simple variations on the relative entropy theme of Dafermos/DiPerna are given, for example that smooth regions of weak entropy solutions shrink at finite speed, and that smooth solutions force solutions of singular entropy-compatible perturbations to converge to them. We conjecture that entropy weak solutions of compressible potential flow are unique, in contrast to the known counterexamples for the Euler equations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1411.2063,
title = {Relative entropy and compressible potential flow},
author = {Volker Elling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2063},
year = {2015}
}