Uniqueness and stability for the shock reflection-diffraction problem for potential flow

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Authors Mikhail Feldman, Wei Xiang, Gui-Qiang Chen

Publication date 25 February 2021

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00114

zbMATH Keywords

admissible solutionscompressible flowconvexityfree boundaryMach reflectionnonlinear elliptic equationspotential flow equationregular reflectionstabilitytransonic shockuniqueness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Self-similar solutions to PDEs (35C06) Boundary values of solutions to elliptic equations and elliptic systems (35J67) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L20) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70) Boundary value problems for PDEs of mixed type (35M12) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) General aerodynamics and subsonic flows (76G25) Transonic flows (76H05) Supersonic flows (76J20) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10) Boundary-layer theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N20)

Abstract: When a plane shock hits a two-dimensional wedge head on, it experiences a reflection-diffraction process, and then a self-similar reflected shock moves outward as the original shock moves forward in time. The experimental, computational, and asymptotic analysis has indicated that various patterns occur, including regular reflection and Mach reflection. The von Neumann conjectures on the transition from regular to Mach reflection involve the existence, uniqueness, and stability of regular shock reflection-diffraction configurations, generated by concave cornered wedges for compressible flow. In this paper, we discuss some recent developments in the study of the von Neumann conjectures. More specifically, we present our recent results of the uniqueness and stability of regular shock reflection-diffraction configurations governed by the potential flow equation in an appropriate class of solutions. We first show that the transonic shocks in the global solutions obtained in Chen-Feldman [19] are convex. Then we establish the uniqueness of global shock reflection-diffraction configurations with convex transonic shocks for any wedge angle larger than the detachment angle or the critical angle. Moreover, the stability of the solutions with respect to the wedge angle is also shown. Our approach also provides an alternative way of proving the existence of the admissible solutions established first in [19].

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