Compressible subsonic jet flows issuing from a nozzle of arbitrary cross-section (Q1736164)

The authors study global existence and uniqueness of solutions for a free-boundary problem describing subsonic inviscid steady irrotational two-dimensional jet flows from a semi-infinite nozzle of any cross-section. The flowing gas is compressible, perfect, isentropic, with no thermal conductivity, driven only by pressure gradient. The nozzle starts at the origin, is symmetric with respect to the $x$-axis, and its walls are $C^{2,\alpha}$. The authors prove that for any nozzle there is a critical incoming mass flow, such that, if the incoming mass flow is under-critical, a unique subsonic solution exists and satisfies the Bernoulli law with come constant. For over-critical incoming mass subsonic solutions are proven to be impossible, in some sense.