On non-isentropic stationary spatial and planar non-stationary double- waves (Q2641179)

A complete classification of planar nonstationary nonisentropic and spatial stationary gas flows of the double-wave type is given when there is a functional arbitrariness. Pressure and entropy are chosen as the independent variables in the hodograph space. It is shown that non- isentropic double-waves with a functional arbitrariness, which are not reduced to invariant solutions, only occur in the stationary spatial case in the case of gases with an equation of state \(\tau =g(p)A(S)\). The flows which are described by these double-waves generalize Prandtl-Meyer waves to the spatial nonisentropic case. Only two forms of planar nonstationary nonisentropic gas flows of the double-wave type, which are not reduced to invariant solutions and have a functional arbitrariness, occur in the general solution of the Cauchy problem.