Riemann solvers and undercompressive shocks of convex FPU chains

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/23/2/004zbMATH Open1195.37046arXiv0909.0216OpenAlexW3102172940MaRDI QIDQ3408263FDOQ3408263

Authors: Michael Herrmann, Jens D. M. Rademacher 

Publication date: 25 February 2010

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider FPU-type atomic chains with general convex potentials. The naive continuum limit in the hyperbolic space-time scaling is the p-system of mass and momentum conservation. We systematically compare Riemann solutions to the p-system with numerical solutions to discrete Riemann problems in FPU chains, and argue that the latter can be described by modified p-system Riemann solvers. We allow the flux to have a turning point, and observe a third type of elementary wave (conservative shocks) in the atomistic simulations. These waves are heteroclinic travelling waves and correspond to non-classical, undercompressive shocks of the p-system. We analyse such shocks for fluxes with one or more turning points. Depending on the convexity properties of the flux we propose FPU-Riemann solvers. Our numerical simulations confirm that Lax-shocks are replaced by so called dispersive shocks. For convex-concave flux we provide numerical evidence that convex FPU chains follow the p-system in generating conservative shocks that are supersonic. For concave-convex flux, however, the conservative shocks of the p-system are subsonic and do not appear in FPU-Riemann solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0216

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zbMATH Keywords

shock waveRiemann solverFPU chainFermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21) Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations (37K60)

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