Euler versus Lagrange: the role of coordinates in practical Evans-function computations

DOI10.1137/17M113770XzbMATH Open1395.65131arXiv1707.01938OpenAlexW2963766563WikidataQ129626461 ScholiaQ129626461MaRDI QIDQ3176281FDOQ3176281

Authors: Blake Barker, Jeffrey Humpherys, Kevin Zumbrun, Gregory D. Lyng 

Publication date: 19 July 2018

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Evans function has become a standard tool in the mathematical study of nonlinear wave stability. In particular, computation of its zero set gives a convenient numerical method for determining the point spectrum of the associated linear operator (and thus the spectral stability of the wave in question). We report on an unexpected complication that frustrates this computation for viscous shock profiles in gas dynamics. Although this phenomenon---related to the choice of Eulerian or Lagrangian coordinate system used to describe the gas---is present already in the one-dimensional setting, its implications are especially important in the multidimensional case where no computationally viable Lagrangian description of the gas is readily available. We introduce new "pseudo-Lagrangian" coordinates that allow us to overcome this difficulty, and we illustrate the utility of these coordinates in the setting of isentropic gas dynamics in two space dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01938

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilityEvans functionviscous shock profile

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Numerical methods for eigenvalue problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N25) Numerical approximation of eigenvalues and of other parts of the spectrum of ordinary differential operators (34L16) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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Uses Software

• STABLAB

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