Relative entropy and compressible potential flow

DOI10.1016/S0252-9602(15)30020-5zbMATH Open1340.35203arXiv1411.2063MaRDI QIDQ902408FDOQ902408

Authors: Volker Elling 

Publication date: 15 January 2016

Published in: Acta Mathematica Scientia. Series B. (English Edition) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Compressible (full) potential flow is expressed as an equivalent first-order system of conservation laws for density $ho$ and velocity $v$. Energy $E$ is shown to be the only nontrivial entropy for that system in multiple space dimensions, and it is strictly convex in $ho,v$ if and only if $|v|<c$. For motivation some simple variations on the relative entropy theme of Dafermos/DiPerna are given, for example that smooth regions of weak entropy solutions shrink at finite speed, and that smooth solutions force solutions of singular entropy-compatible perturbations to converge to them. We conjecture that entropy weak solutions of compressible potential flow are unique, in contrast to the known counterexamples for the Euler equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2063

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zbMATH Keywords

entropyshockrelative entropypotential flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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