The Mach stem equation and amplification in strongly nonlinear geometric optics

DOI10.1353/AJM.2017.0026MaRDI QIDQ5349329zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-François Coulombel, Mark Williams

Publication date 24 August 2017

Published in American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02793

zbMATH Keywords

approximate solutionsfirst order hyperbolic equationgeometric opticsMach stem equationquasilinear weak well-posednessWKB cascade

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear first-order PDEs (35F31) Initial-boundary value problems for first-order hyperbolic equations (35L04) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Geometric optics (78A05)

Abstract: We study highly oscillating solutions to a class of weakly well-posed hyperbolic initial boundary value problems. Weak well-posedness is associated with an amplification phenomenon of oscillating waves on the boundary. In the previous works [CGW14, CW14], we have rigorously justified a weakly nonlinear regime for semilinear problems. In that case, the forcing term on the boundary has amplitude O($epsilon$^2) and oscillates at a frequency O(1/$epsilon$). The corresponding exact solution, which has been shown to exist on a time interval that is independent of $epsilon$ $in$ (0,1], has amplitude O($epsilon$). In this paper, we deal with the exact same scaling, namely O($epsilon$^2) forcing term on the boundary and O($epsilon$) solution, for quasilinear problems. In analogy with [CGM03], this corresponds to a strongly nonlinear regime, and our main result proves solvability for the corresponding WKB cascade of equations, which yields existence of approximate solutions on a time interval that is independent of $epsilon$ $in$ (0,1]. Existence of exact solutions close to approximate ones is a stability issue which, as shown in [CGM03], highly depends on the hyperbolic system and on the boundary conditions; we do not address that question here. This work encompasses previous formal expansions in the case of weakly stable shock waves [MR83] and two-dimensional compressible vortex sheets [AM87]. In particular, we prove well-posedness for the leading amplitude equation (the "Mach stem equation") of [MR83] and generalize its derivation to a large class of hyperbolic boundary value problems and to periodic forcing terms. The latter case is solved under a crucial nonresonant assumption and a small divisor condition.

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