Relative entropy and the stability of shocks and contact discontinuities for systems of conservation laws with non-\(BV\) perturbations (Q715297)

The authors consider a wide class of systems of conservation laws endowed with a convex entropy. Based on the notion of relative entropy, they develop the theory to establish the uniqueness and global \(L^2\)-stability of extremal entropy Rankine-Hugoniot shock and contact discontinuities in the class of weak entropy solutions with the trace property. The assumptions are quite general. In particular, neither a smallness condition nor global strict hyperbolicity is required. Applications are given to systems of fluid mechanics.