Supersonic flow onto solid wedges, multidimensional shock waves and free boundary problems

DOI10.1007/S11425-016-9045-1zbMATH Open1391.35274arXiv1703.03997OpenAlexW2596576480MaRDI QIDQ1703783FDOQ1703783

Authors: Gui-Qiang Chen 

Publication date: 7 March 2018

Published in: Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: When an upstream steady uniform supersonic flow impinges onto a symmetric straight-sided wedge, governed by the Euler equations, there are two possible steady oblique shock configurations if the wedge angle is less than the detachment angle -- the steady weak shock with supersonic or subsonic downstream flow (determined by the wedge angle that is less or larger than the sonic angle) and the steady strong shock with subsonic downstream flow, both of which satisfy the entropy condition. The fundamental issue -- whether one or both of the steady weak and strong shocks are physically admissible solutions -- has been vigorously debated over the past eight decades. In this paper, we survey some recent developments on the stability analysis of the steady shock solutions in both the steady and dynamic regimes. For the static stability, we first show how the stability problem can be formulated as an initial-boundary value type problem and then reformulate it into a free boundary problem when the perturbation of both the upstream steady supersonic flow and the wedge boundary are suitably regular and small, and we finally present some recent results on the static stability of the steady supersonic and transonic shocks. For the dynamic stability for potential flow, we first show how the stability problem can be formulated as an initial-boundary value problem and then use the self-similarity of the problem to reduce it into a boundary value problem and further reformulate it into a free boundary problem, and we finally survey some recent developments in solving this free boundary problem for the existence of the Prandtl-Meyer configurations that tend to the steady weak supersonic or transonic oblique shock solutions as time goes to infinity. Some further developments and mathematical challenges in this direction are also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03997

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zbMATH Keywords

dynamic stabilitystatic stabilitytwo spatial dimensionssteady shock solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Euler equations (35Q31) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations (35-02) Transonic flows (76H05)

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