On the shock wave spectrum for isentropic gas dynamics with capillarity

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2008.07.028MaRDI QIDQ1014733zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 29 April 2009

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2411

capillarity gas dynamics shock wave stability

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10)

Abstract: We consider the stability problem for shock layers in Slemrod's model of an isentropic gas with capillarity. We show that these traveling waves are monotone in the weak capillarity case, and become highly oscillatory as the capillarity strength increases. Using a spectral energy estimate we prove that small-amplitude monotone shocks are spectrally stable. We also show, through the use of a novel spectral energy estimate, that monotone shocks have no unstable real spectrum regardless of amplitude; this implies that any instabilities of these monotone traveling waves, if they exist, must occur through a Hopf-like bifurcation, where one or more conjugate pairs of eigenvalues cross the imaginary axis. We then conduct a systematic numerical Evans function study, which shows that monotone and mildly oscillatory profiles in an adiabatic gas are spectrally stable for moderate values of shock and capillarity strengths. In particular, we show that the transition from monotone to non-monotone profiles does not appear to trigger any instabilities.

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