A new type of stable shock formation in gas dynamics

Authors Isaac Neal, Calum Rickard, Steve Shkoller, Vlad Vicol

Publication date 29 March 2023

Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

Abstract: From an open set of initial data, we construct a family of classical solutions to the 1D nonisentropic compressible Euler equations which form

C^{0, u}

cusps as a first singularity, for any

u i n [1 / 2, 1)

. For this range of

u

, this is the first result demonstrating the stable formation of such

C^{0, u}

cusp-type singularities, also known as pre-shocks. The proof uses a new formulation of the differentiated Euler equations along the fast acoustic characteristic, and relies on a novel set of

L^{p}

energy estimates for all

1 < p < i n f t y

, which may be of independent interest.

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