Formation of singularities in one-dimensional Chaplygin gas

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Abstract: In this paper we investigate the formation and propagation of singularities for the system for one-dimensional Chaplygin gas. In particular, under suitable assumptions we construct a physical solution with a new type of singularities called "Delta-like" solution for this kind of quasilinear hyperbolic system with linearly degenerate characteristics. By careful analysis, we study the behavior of the solution in a neighborhood of a blowup point. The formation of this new kind of singularities is due to the envelope of the different families of characteristics instead of the same family of characteristics in the traditional situation. This shows that the blowup phenomenon of solution for the system with linearly degenerate characteristics is quite different from the situation of shock formation for the system with genuinely nonlinear characteristics. Different initial data can lead to kinds of different Delta-like singularities: the Delta-like singularity with point-shape and Delta-like singularity with line-shape.


The authors consider the one-dimensional quasilinear Euler system with degenerate characteristics for isentropic Chaplygin gas and describe formation and propagation of singularities. Formation of cusp-type singularities is studied in detail. The delta-type solution is introduced and a few examples are constructed: in a delta-type solution the density becomes infinite in the blowup point. The behaviour of solution near the blowup point is described.




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