Shock waves in dispersive Eulerian fluids

DOI10.1007/S00332-014-9199-4zbMATH Open1302.76094OpenAlexW2041475201WikidataQ57442445 ScholiaQ57442445MaRDI QIDQ744455FDOQ744455

Authors: M. A. Hoefer 

Publication date: 25 September 2014

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The long time behavior of an initial step resulting in a dispersive shock wave (DSW) for the one-dimensional isentropic Euler equations regularized by generic, third order dispersion is considered by use of Whitham averaging. Under modest assumptions, the jump conditions (DSW locus and speeds) for admissible, weak DSWs are characterized and found to depend only upon the sign of dispersion (convex or concave) and a general pressure law. Two mechanisms leading to the breakdown of this simple wave DSW theory for sufficiently large jumps are identified: a change in the sign of dispersion, leading to gradient catastrophe in the modulation equations, and the loss of genuine nonlinearity in the modulation equations. Large amplitude DSWs are constructed for several particular dispersive fluids with differing pressure laws modeled by the generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation. These include superfluids (Bose-Einstein condensates and ultracold Fermions) and "optical fluids". Estimates of breaking times for smooth initial data and the long time behavior of the shock tube problem are presented. Numerical simulations compare favorably with the asymptotic results in the weak to moderate amplitude regimes. Deviations in the large amplitude regime are identified with breakdown of the simple wave DSW theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2541

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemann problemdispersive shock wavedispersive Euler equationsWhitham averaginggeneralized nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Euler equations (35Q31) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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