Interaction of rarefaction waves of the two-dimensional self-similar Euler equations

J Li, Y Zheng - Archive for rational mechanics and analysis, 2009 - Springer
We construct classical self-similar solutions to the interaction of two arbitrary planar
rarefaction waves for the polytropic Euler equations in two space dimensions. The binary …

Interaction of four rarefaction waves in the bi-symmetric class of the two-dimensional Euler equations

J Li, Y Zheng - Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2010 - Springer
The global existence and structures of solutions to multi-dimensional unsteady compressible
Euler equations are interesting and important open problems. In this paper, we construct …

Semi-hyperbolic patches of solutions to the two-dimensional Euler equations

M Li, Y Zheng - Archive for rational mechanics and analysis, 2011 - Springer
We construct semi-hyperbolic patches of solutions, in which one family out of two nonlinear
families of characteristics starts on sonic curves and ends on transonic shock waves, to the …

Characteristic decompositions and interactions of rarefaction waves of 2-D Euler equations

J Li, Z Yang, Y Zheng - Journal of Differential Equations, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with classical solutions to the interaction of two arbitrary planar
rarefaction waves for the self-similar Euler equations in two space dimensions. We develop …

Sonic-supersonic solutions for the two-dimensional steady full Euler equations

Y Hu, J Li - Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 2020 - Springer
This paper focuses on the structure of classical sonic-supersonic solutions near sonic curves
for the two-dimensional full Euler equations in gas dynamics. In order to deal with the …

Transonic shock formation in a rarefaction Riemann problem for the 2D compressible Euler equations

J Glimm, X Ji, J Li, X Li, P Zhang, T Zhang… - SIAM Journal on Applied …, 2008 - SIAM
It is perhaps surprising for a shock wave to exist in the solution of a rarefaction Riemann
problem for the compressible Euler equations in two space dimensions. We present …

The interaction of rarefaction waves of the two-dimensional Euler equations

X Chen, Y Zheng - Indiana University Mathematics Journal, 2010 - JSTOR
We construct classical self-similar solutions to the interaction of two arbitrary planar
rarefaction waves for the Euler equations in two space dimensions via the characteristics …

[PDF][PDF] Semi-hyperbolic patches of solutions of the pressure gradient system

K Song, Y Zheng - Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst, 2009 - Citeseer
We construct patches of self-similar solutions, in which one family out of two nonlinear
families of characteristics starts on sonic curves and ends on transonic shock waves, to the …

Simple waves and pressure delta waves for a Chaplygin gas in two-dimensions

G Lai, W Sheng, Y Zheng - Discrete and Continuous Dynamical …, 2011 - aimsciences.org
We present two new types of self-similar solutions to the Chaplygin gas model in two space
dimensions: Simple waves and pressure delta waves, which are absent in one space …

Sonic-supersonic solutions for the steady Euler equations

T Zhang, Y Zheng - Indiana University Mathematics Journal, 2014 - JSTOR
Given a smooth curve as a sonic line in the plane, we construct a local smooth supersonic
solution on one side of the curve for the steady compressible Euler system of equations in …