Loss of regularity of solutions of the Lighthill problem for shock diffraction for potential flow

DOI10.1137/19M1284531zbMATH Open1439.35327arXiv1705.06837OpenAlexW3012021409MaRDI QIDQ4959839FDOQ4959839

Authors: Mikhail Feldman, Jingchen Hu, Wei Xiang, Gui-Qiang Chen 

Publication date: 7 April 2020

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We are concerned with the suitability of the main models of compressible fluid dynamics for the Lighthill problem for shock diffraction by a convex corned wedge, by studying the regularity of solutions of the problem, which can be formulated as a free boundary problem. In this paper, we prove that there is no regular solution that is subsonic up to the wedge corner for potential flow. This indicates that, if the solution is subsonic at the wedge corner, at least a characteristic discontinuity (vortex sheet or entropy wave) is expected to be generated, which is consistent with the experimental and computational results. Therefore, the potential flow equation is not suitable for the Lighthill problem so that the compressible Euler system must be considered. In order to achieve the non-existence result, a weak maximum principle for the solution is established, and several other mathematical techniques are developed. The methods and techniques developed here are also useful to the other problems with similar difficulties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06837

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zbMATH Keywords

compressible flowdegenerate elliptic equationsshock diffractionpotential flow equationmixed elliptic-hyperbolic type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Euler equations (35Q31) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10) Transonic flows (76H05) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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