Global supersonic conic shock wave for the steady supersonic flow past a cone: Polytropic gas (Q2378212)

This paper is concerned with with the global existence of a shock wave solution for the perturbed steady flow past an infinitely long conical body when the vertex angle is less than some critical value. The flow is assumed to be polytropic, isentropic and described by a steady potential equation. It is shown that the conic shock attached at the vertex exists globally in space when the speed of the incoming supersonic flow is appropriately large. The problem is reformulated by introducing the Riemann invariants, and then some useful estimates for the coefficients of the nonlinear system and its boundary conditions are established which enable one to show that the shock equation and the resulting boundary conditions are dissipative; some uniform decay estimates on the solution and its derivatives are given, and conditions leading to the blow-up of the shock solution in a finite time are pointed out.