THE ELLIPTICITY PRINCIPLE FOR SELF-SIMILAR POTENTIAL FLOWS

DOI10.1142/S0219891605000646MaRDI QIDQ3373069zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Volker Elling, Tai-Ping Liu

Publication date 13 March 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509332

zbMATH Keywords

mixed-type equationself-similar flowcompressible potential flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) PDEs of mixed type (35M10)

Abstract: We consider self-similar potential flow for compressible gas with polytropic pressure law. Self-similar solutions arise as large-time asymptotes of general solutions, and as exact solutions of many important special cases like Mach reflection, multidimensional Riemann problems, or flow around corners. Self-similar potential flow is a quasilinear second-order PDE of mixed type which is hyperbolic at infinity (if the velocity is globally bounded). The type in each point is determined by the local pseudo-Mach number L, with L<1 resp. L>1 corresponding to elliptic resp. hyperbolic regions. We prove an ellipticity principle: the interior of a parabolic-elliptic region of a sufficiently smooth solution must be elliptic; in fact $L$ must be bounded above away from 1 by a domain-dependent function. In particular there are no open parabolic regions. We also discuss the case of slip boundary conditions at straight solid walls.

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