Regularity of solutions to regular shock reflection for potential flow (Q1006876)

The authors study the regularity of solutions to regular shock reflection for potential flows. The shock reflection problem is described. The regularity of solutions to a class of nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations near the degenerate boundary with Dirichlet data is studied. It is shown that \(C^{1,1}\) regularity is in some sense optimal for the solution across the pseudo-sonic circle. Also \(C^{2,\alpha}\) regularity is obtained. Existence and regularity results hold not only for the polytropic case \(\gamma>1\), but also for the isothermal case \(\gamma=1\).