一维活塞问题激波解的整体存在性

本文用改进的Glimm格式的方法,研究一维活塞问题当活塞的运动速度是一个常数的扰动时含有激波的弱解的存在性.对波的相互作用以及扰动波在主激波和活塞上的反射作出了精确的估计,在对主激波的强度不加限制的情况下证明了激波解的整体存在性.     

Problem of the Motion of an Elastic Medium Formed at the Solidification Front

The following self-similar problem is considered. At the initial instant of time, a phase transformation front starts moving at constant velocity from a certain plane (which will be called a wall or a piston, depending on whether it is assumed to be fixed or movable); at this front, an elastic medium is formed as a result of solidification from a medium without tangential stresses. On the wall, boundary conditions are defined for the components of velocity, stress, or strain. Behind the solidification front, plane nonlinear elastic waves can propagate in the medium formed, provided that the velocities of these waves are less than the velocity of the front. The medium formed is assumed to be incompressible, weakly nonlinear, and with low anisotropy. Under these assumptions, the solution of the self-similar problem is described qualitatively for arbitrary parameters appearing in the statement of the problem. The study is based on the authors’ previous investigation of solidification fronts whose structure is described by the Kelvin–Voigt model of a viscoelastic medium.     

Inverse Piston Problem for the System of One-Dimensional Isentropic Flow

In this paper, the authors consider the inverse piston problem for the system of one-dimensional isentropic flow and obtain that, under suitable conditions, the piston velocity can be uniquely determined by the initial state of the gas on the right side of the piston and the position of the forward shock.     

A REMARK ON HOFER-ZEHNDER SYMPLECTIC CAPACITY IN SYMPLECTIC MANIFOLDS M×R~(2n)

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Stability of Rarefaction Wave to the 1-D Piston Problem for the Pressure-Gradient Equations

The 1-D piston problem for the pressure gradient equations arising from the flux-splitting of the compressible Euler equations is considered. When the total variations of the initial data and the velocity of the piston are both sufficiently small, the author establishes the global existence of entropy solutions including a strong rarefaction wave without restriction on the strength by employing a modified wave front tracking method.     

Self-similar solutions of the Euler equations with spherical symmetry

We consider self-similar flows arising from the uniform expansion of a spherical piston and preceded by a shock wave front. With appropriate boundary conditions imposed on the piston surface and the spherical shock, the isentropic compressible Euler system is transformed into a nonlinear ODE system. We formulate the problem in a simple form in order to present the analytic proof of the global existence of positive smooth solutions.     

轴对称压差系统的自相似解

考察了二维压差系统的轴对称活塞均匀膨胀而产生的自相似流动.在轴对称和自相似假设下,该问题可以简化为一个自治的非线性常微分方程组的自由边值问题.通过对常微分方程组的积分曲线性质的详细分析,建立该自由边值问题正光滑解的整体存在性.     

Approximate calculation method for one-dimensional gas flows induced by nonmonotonic motion of a piston : PMM vol. 40, n 6, 1976, pp. 1058–1064

The problem of one-dimensional piston which at the beginning moves with increasing velocity into a gas at rest, then is decelerated, and finally stops, is solved by means of special series. The gas flow field is constructed by a successive joining of three characteristic Cauchy problems in terms of their characteristic solutions. Generalized solution of the problem of instantaneous arrest of the piston is derived. Obtained equations are used for the approximate calculation of the motion of generated shock waves.Representation of solutions of certain boundary value problems for nonlinear equations of the hyperbolic kind in the form of special series was proposed in [1, 2], The problem of the piston moving into a gas at rest is solved there, and the obtained solution was used for an approximate determination of the generated shock wave. The piston velocity was assumed to be monotonically increasing. That problem is solved here with the use of similar series in the case when the piston velocity is nonmonotonous,Numerical methods make it possible at present to determine one-dimensional flows similar to that considered below, and multidimensional problems can be solved by the method proposed in [1, 2]. The use of the proposed scheme for solving the problem of the multidimensional piston, whose velocity is nonmonotonous, does not present theoretical difficulties, but except that the formulas are more cumbersome.     

Analysis of the adiabatic piston problem via methods of continuum mechanics

We consider a system modelling the motion of a piston in a cylinder filled by a viscous heat conducting gas. The piston is moving longitudinally without friction under the influence of the forces exerted by the gas. In addition, the piston is supposed to be thermally insulating (adiabatic piston). This fact raises several challenges which received a considerable attention, essentially in the statistical physics literature. We study the problem via the methods of continuum mechanics, specifically, the motion of the gas is described by means of the Navier–Stokes–Fourier system in one space dimension, coupled with Newton's second law governing the motion of the piston. We establish global in time existence of strong solutions and show that the system stabilizes to an equilibrium state for $t\to \infty$.     

Stability of rarefaction wave to the 1-D piston problem for exothermically reacting Euler equations

This paper is to devoted to the stability of the rarefaction wave for one dimensional piston problem of the exothermically reacting Euler equations. When the total variation of the initial data and the perturbation of the piston velocity are sufficiently small, we employ fractional wave front tracking scheme to establish the global existence and study the asymptotic behavior of entropy solutions as \(t\rightarrow +\infty \).     

Stability of contact discontinuities to 1-D piston problem for the compressible Euler equations

We consider 1-D piston problem for the compressible Euler equations when the piston is static relatively to the gas in the tube. By a modified wave front tracking method, we prove that a contact discontinuity is structurally stable under the assumptions that the total variation of the initial data and the perturbation of the piston velocity are both sufficiently small. Meanwhile, we study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions by the generalized characteristic method and approximate conservation law theory as $t\to +\infty$.     

Self-similar convergence of a shock wave in a heat conducting gas

The problem of the convergence of a spherical shock wave (SW) to the centre, taking into account the thermal conductivity of the gas in front of the SW, is considered within the limits of a proposed approximate model of a heat conducting gas with an infinitely high thermal conductivity and a small temperature gradient, such that the heat flux is finite in a small region in front of the converging SW. In this model, there is a phase transition in the surface of the SW from a perfect gas to another gas with different constant specific heat and the heat outflow. The gas is polytropic and perfect behind the SW. Constraints are derived which are imposed on the self-similarity indices as a function of the adiabatic exponents on the two sides of the SW. In front of the SW, the temperature and density increase without limit. In the general case, a set of self-similar solutions with two self-similarity indices exists but, in the case of strong SW close to the limiting compression, there are two solutions, each of which is completely determined by the motion of the spherical piston causing the self-similar convergence of the SW.     

A singular multi-dimensional piston problem in compressible flow

This paper concerns the multi-dimensional piston problem, which is a special initial boundary value problem of multi-dimensional unsteady potential flow equation. The problem is defined in a domain bounded by two conical surfaces, one of them is shock, whose location is also to be determined. By introducing self-similar coordinates, the problem can be reduced to a free boundary value problem of an elliptic equation. The existence of the problem is proved by using partial hodograph transformation and nonlinear alternating iteration. The result also shows the stability of the structure of shock front in symmetric case under small perturbation.     

Introductory Statement

This work continues the account given in Part I of the paper¹ by presenting a short summary of some of the mathematical techniques employed in the wave front analysis of quasi‐linear hyperbolic partial differential equations. Starting from a number of important physical examples, the classification of quasi‐linear first‐order systems is discussed and followed by a simple account of the theory of characteristics for systems involving n dependent and two independent variables. A special example is discussed showing how discontinuities arise in solutions, and the paper is concluded by an account of wave front analysis as applied to the piston problem of gas dynamics.     

An analytical method for solving the problem of unshocked conical gas compression

The two-dimensional unsteady self-similar problem of unlimited unshocked conical compression of a gas is investigated. A solution is constructed in the form of a characteristic series in the domain bounded by a weak discontinuity and the sonic perturbation front. A recursion system of ordinary differential equations is obtained for the coefficients. A boundary-value problem corresponding to the next approximation is investigated in detail, a fundamental system of solutions is found by analytical methods and its asymptotic behaviour is investigated. Essentially independent solutions are determined and different methods are used to seek a solution of the inhomogeneous equation with the required asymptotic behaviour. An algorithm is constructed to compute gas flows induced by the motion of a piston taking the first terms of the series into consideration. The results are compared with those of computations carried out using the method of characteristics.     

Discharge of gas into vacuum with temperature at the boundary subject to exponential law

A two-dimensional self-similar problem of discharge of a heat conducting gas Into vacuum is analyzed. The temperature at the boundary of gas and vacuum is assumed to change as an exponential function of time. The coefficient of thermal conductivity depends exponentially on temperature and density. The initial gas density is assumed to be finite and constant. With definite values of exponents this problem is self-similar i.e. the system of partial differential equations can be reduced to the solution of a system of ordinary equations.

The self-modeling properties of solutions of this kind of problems has been noted earlier in [1 and 2]. The problem analyzed here is a particular case of the problem of piston motion considered in [3]. In this problem, however, there appears at the boundary of gas and vacuum a new singular point which does not occur in the piston problem.

A numerical solution of the boundary value problem defined by a system of ordinary equations is made difficult by the presence in the latter of singular points, and of discontinuities in the sought solution. These difficulties have been overcome by a qualitative analysis of the behavior of integral curves, and by the selection of a suitable method of numerical integration.

It is shown in this work that, depending on the initial parameters of the problem, there may exist two kinds of solutions. This had been noted earlier in [1, 3 and 4]. Examples of these are presented here. The degeneration of the solution into a trivial one, when the thermal conductivity coefficient is either invariant of density, or increases with increasing density, is pointed out.     

Non-formation of a vacuum state in a standing piston problem

When boundary data is introduced, additional terms are introduced into the weak formulation of the Navier-Stokes conservation law. We examine the example of single standing piston problem. The single piston problem corresponds to a fixed boundary problem.It is intuitively clear when a single piston filled with gas is pulled apart, even though gas becomes sparse in density, a vacuum state is never formed, because of viscosity. To study this rigorously, the Navier-Stokes equations are used to describe the gas's density and velocity, subject to the presence of viscosity. We prove that, given reasonable assumptions on the boundary data, vacuum states cannot form, if they are not present initially.     

Wave front analysis of weak nonlinear waves in a two-phase flow of gas and dust particles

The non-linear behavior of waves including the characteristic front, the expansion wave front and the shock front, in a mixture of gas and dust particles has been studied. Such waves are conceived of as produced by a piston moving with a small velocity as compared with the speed of sound. The trajectories of these waves and the particle paths in the physical plane are determined. The effect of solid particles and the adiabatic heat exponent on the wave propagation is also investigated.     

Gas dynamics applications of a characteristic Cauchy problem

Some initial-boundary-value problems for a system of quasilinear partial differential equations of gas dynamics with the initial data prescribed on the characteristic surface (characteristic Cauchy problem) are considered. The following three-dimensional flow problems are investigated: the flow produced by a motion of an impermeable piston; the flow produced by a permeable piston with a given pressure; and the flow produced by the moving free boundary. In the first two problems, the piston motion is prescribed; in the last problem, the free boundary motion cannot be prescribed in advance and must be determined as a part of the problem. It is shown that those problems can be reduced to a characteristic Cauchy problem of a certain standard type that satisfies the analog of Cauchy-Kowalewski's existence theorem in the class of analytical functions (Differential Equations 12 (1977) 1438-1444). Thus, it is proved that, in the case of the analyticity of the input data, the considered problems have unique piecewise analytic solutions which may be expressed by infinite power series (the procedure of constructing the power series solution is described in Differential Equations 12 (1977) 1438-1444 as a part of the proof of the theorem).