Nonexistence of Riemann solutions and Majda-Pego instability (Q5935532)

The authors consider Riemann problems for the shallow water equations. The weak self-similar solutions are studied with jump discontinuities that satisfy the viscous profile entropy criterion corresponded to some positive definite symmetric viscosity matrix. It is proved that for general nondiagonal viscosity matrix and an open set of input parameters the weak solutions do not exist. The authors show that this happens for the hyperbolic initial data that is unstable in Majda-Pego sense.