Shock waves for radiative hyperbolic-elliptic systems

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Abstract: The present paper deals with the following hyperbolic--elliptic coupled system, modelling dynamics of a gas in presence of radiation, ut+f(u)x+Lqx=0,−qxx+Rq+Gcdotux=0, where uinRn, qinR and R>0, G, LinRn. The flux function f:RnoRn is smooth and such that ablaf has n distinct real eigenvalues for any u. The problem of existence of admissible radiative shock wave is considered, i.e. existence of a solution of the form (u,q)(x,t):=(U,Q)(x−st), such that (U,Q)(pminfty)=(upm,0), and upminRn, sinR define a shock wave for the reduced hyperbolic system, obtained by formally putting L=0. It is proved that, if u− is such that ablalambdak(u−)cdotrk(u−)eq0,(where lambdak denotes the k-th eigenvalue of ablaf and rk a corresponding right eigenvector) and (ellk(u−)cdotL)(Gcdotrk(u−))>0, then there exists a neighborhood mathcalU of u− such that for any u+inmathcalU, sinR such that the triple (u−,u+;s) defines a shock wave for the reduced hyperbolic system, there exists a (unique up to shift) admissible radiative shock wave for the complete hyperbolic--elliptic system. Additionally, we are able to prove that the profile (U,Q) gains smoothness when the size of the shock |u+−u−| is small enough, as previously proved for the Burgers' flux case. Finally, the general case of nonconvex fluxes is also treated, showing similar results of existence and regularity for the profiles.





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