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On the expansion of a wedge of van der Waals gas into vacuum III: interaction of fan-shock-fan composite waves

Geng Lai
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This paper studies the expansion into vacuum of a wedge of gas at rest. This problem catches several important classes of wave interactions in the context of 2D Riemann problems. When the gas at rest is a nonideal gas, the gas away from the sharp corner of the wedge may expand into the vacuum as two symmetrical planar rarefaction fan waves, shock-fan composite waves, or fan-shock-fan composite waves. Then the expansion in vacuum problem can be reduced to the interactions of these elementary waves. Global existences of classical solutions to the interaction of the fan waves and the interaction of the shock-fan composite waves were obtained by the author in [21,22]. In the present paper we study the third case: interaction of fan-shock-fan composite waves. In contrast to the first two cases, the third case involves shock waves in the interaction region and is actually a shock free boundary problem. Differing from the transonic shock free boundary problems arising in 2D Riemann problems for ideal gases, the type of the shocks for this shock free boundary problem is also a priori unknown. This results in the fact that the formulation of the boundary conditions on the shocks is also a priori unknown. By calculating the curvatures of the shocks and using the Liu's extended entropy condition, we prove that the shocks in the interaction region must be post-sonic (in the sense of the flow velocity relative to the shock front). We also prove that the shocks are envelopes of one out of the two families of wave characteristics of the flow behind them, and not characteristics. By virtue of the hodograph transformation method and the characteristic decomposition method, we construct a global-in-time piecewise smooth solution to the expansion in vacuum problem for the third case.

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Geng Lai. 2025-05-14. On the expansion of a wedge of van der Waals gas into vacuum III: interaction of fan-shock-fan composite waves. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09072

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