An overview of some recent results on the Euler system of isentropic gas dynamics (Q285340)

The authors study uniqueness of solution to the Cauchy problem for isentropic compressible Euler system in two space dimensions. Pressure is the function of density: \(p=\rho^\gamma\). The main result of the paper states that for \(1\leq \gamma\leq 3\) there exist Riemann data such that some of the infinitely many solutions dissipate more energy than the self-similar solution. This shows that the Dafermos entropy rate criterion can fail to pick the self-similar solution.