Shock reflection-diffraction, von Neumann's conjectures, and nonlinear equations of mixed type

zbMATH Open1391.35275arXiv1311.5596MaRDI QIDQ4597138FDOQ4597138

Authors: Mikhail Feldman, Gui-Qiang Chen 

Publication date: 11 December 2017

Abstract: Shock waves are fundamental in nature. One of the most fundamental problems in fluid mechanics is shock reflection-diffraction by wedges. The complexity of reflection-diffraction configurations was first reported by Ernst Mach in 1878. The problems remained dormant until the 1940s when John von Neumann, as well as other mathematical/experimental scientists, began extensive research into all aspects of shock reflection-diffraction phenomena. In this paper we start with shock reflection-diffraction phenomena and historic perspectives, their fundamental scientific issues and theoretical roles in the mathematical theory of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. Then we present how the global shock reflection-diffraction problem can be formulated as a boundary value problem in an unbounded domain for nonlinear conservation laws of mixed hyperbolic-elliptic type, and describe the von Neumann conjectures: the sonic conjecture and the detachment conjecture. Finally we discuss some recent developments in solving the von Neumann conjectures and establishing a mathematical theory of shock reflection-diffraction, including the existence, regularity, and stability of global regular configurations of shock reflection-diffraction by wedges.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.5596

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemann problemideal polytropic gaspotential flowmixed elliptic-hyperbolic type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L20) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10) PDEs of mixed type (35M10) Boundary value problems for PDEs of mixed type (35M12) Transonic flows (76H05) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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