Characteristic initial value problem for spherically symmetric barotropic flow

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Abstract: We study the equations of motion for a barotropic fluid in spherical symmetric flow. Making use of the Riemann invariants we consider the characteristic form of these equations. In a first part, we show that the resulting constraint equations along characteristics can be solved globally away from the center of symmetry. In a second part, given data on two intersecting characteristics, we show existence and uniqueness of a smooth solution in a neighborhood in the future of these characteristics.












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