Small Amplitude Theory of Richtmyer—Meshkov Instability in Cylindrical and Spherical Geometries

In this paper we formulate the linear theory for compressible fluids in spherical geometry. We derive the first-order equations in the smooth regions, boundary conditions at the shock fronts and the contact interface by linearizing the Euler equations and Rankine—Hugoniot conditions. This formulation can be used for the computation of the linear theory in spherical and cylindrical geometries.     

Global existence of classical solutions for the 3D generalized compressible Oldroyd-B model

In this paper, we prove the global existence of small classical solutions to the 3D generalized compressible Oldroyd-B system. It can be seen as compressible Euler equations coupling the evolution of stress tensor τ. The result mainly shows that singularity of solutions to compressible Euler equations can be prevented by the coupling of viscoelastic stress tensor. Moreover, unlike most complex fluids containing compressible Euler equations, the irrotational condition ∇×u=0 would not be proposed here to achieve the global well-posedness.     

Transonic shocks for steady Euler flows with cylindrical symmetry

In this paper, we prove the existence of transonic shocks adjacent to a uniform one for the full Euler system for steady compressible fluids with cylindrical symmetry in a cylinder, and consequently show the stability of such uniform transonic shocks. Mathematically we solve a free boundary problem for a quasi-linear elliptic–hyperbolic composite system. This reveals that the boundary conditions and equations interact in a subtle way. The key point is to “separate” in a suitable way the elliptic and hyperbolic parts of the system. The approach developed here can be applied to deal with certain multidimensional problems concerning stability of transonic shocks for the full Euler system.     

Coupling of compressible and incompressible flow regions using the multiple pressure variables approach

In many cases, multiphase flows are simulated on the basis of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. This assumption is valid as long as the density changes in the gas phase can be neglected. Yet, for certain technical applications such as fuel injection, this is no longer the case, and at least the gaseous phase has to be treated as a compressible fluid. In this paper, we consider the coupling of a compressible flow region to an incompressible one based on a splitting of the pressure into a thermodynamic and a hydrodynamic part. The compressible Euler equations are then connected to the Mach number zero limit equations in the other region. These limit equations can be solved analytically in one space dimension that allows to couple them to the solution of a half‐Riemann problem on the compressible side with the help of velocity and pressure jump conditions across the interface. At the interface location, the flux terms for the compressible flow solver are provided by the coupling algorithms. The coupling is demonstrated in a one‐dimensional framework by use of a discontinuous Galerkin scheme for compressible two‐phase flow with a sharp interface tracking via a ghost‐fluid type method. The coupling schemes are applied to two generic test cases. The computational results are compared with those obtained with the fully compressible two‐phase flow solver, where the Mach number zero limit is approached by a weakly compressible fluid. For all cases, we obtain a very good agreement between the coupling approaches and the fully compressible solver. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Asymptotic Analysis of Steady and Nonsteady Navier-Stokes Equations for Barotropic Compressible Flow

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to steady and nonsteady Navier-Stokes equations for barotropic compressible fluids with slip boundary conditions in small channels whose diameters converge to zero. We also derive the corresponding asymptotic one-dimensional equations and we analyze the sets, where L ¹-weak convergence of the pressure terms fails.     

Stability of the planar rarefaction wave to two-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations of compressible fluids

This study is concerned with the large time behavior of the two-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations, which are used to model compressible fluids with internal capillarity. Based on the fact that the rarefaction wave, one of the basic wave patterns to the hyperbolic conservation laws is nonlinearly stable to the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations, the planar rarefaction wave to the two-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations is first derived. Then, it is shown that the planar rarefaction wave is asymptotically stable in the case that the initial data are suitably small perturbations of the planar rarefaction wave. The proof is based on the delicate energy method. This is the first stability result of the planar rarefaction wave to the multi-dimensional viscous fluids with internal capillarity.     

Global solutions for a one-dimensional problem in conducting fluids

A mathematical model of the motion of conducting fluids is studied in this paper. The dynamics of such fluids is described by the equations of compressible fluids coupled to the Maxwell’s equations. We prove global existence of strong solution for a one-dimensional initial-boundary value problem of this model (plane conducting flows) with general large data.     

Blowup of smooth solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equation with compact density

We present a sufficient condition on the blowup of smooth solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in arbitrary space dimensions with initial density of compact support. As an immediate application, it is shown that any smooth solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for polytropic fluids in the absence of heat conduction will blow up in finite time as long as the initial densities have compact support, and an upper bound, which depends only on the initial data, on the blowup time follows from our elementary analysis immediately. Another implication is that there is no global small (decay in time) or even bounded (in the case that all the viscosity coefficients are positive) smooth solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for polytropic fluids, no matter how small the initial data are, as long as the initial density is of compact support. This is in contrast to the classical theory of global existence of small solutions to the same system with initial data being a small perturbation of a constant state that is not a vacuum. The blowup of smooth solutions to the compressible Euler system with initial density and velocity of compact support is a simple consequence of our argument. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Convergence of the compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations to incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations

In this paper, we study the incompressible limit of the three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations, which models the dynamics of compressible quasi-neutrally ionized fluids under the influence of electromagnetic fields. Based on the convergence-stability principle, we show that, when the Mach number, the shear viscosity coefficient, and the magnetic diffusion coefficient are sufficiently small, the initial-value problem of the model has a unique smooth solution in the time interval where the ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations have a smooth solution. When the latter has a global smooth solution, the maximal existence time for the former tends to infinity as the Mach number, the shear viscosity coefficient, and the magnetic diffusion coefficient go to zero. Moreover, we obtain the convergence of smooth solutions for the model forwards those for the ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations with a sharp convergence rate.     

Life span of 2‐D irrotational compressible fluids in the halfplane

We consider the Euler equations of barotropic inviscid compressible fluids in the half plane. It is well known that, as the Mach number goes to zero, the compressible flows approximate the solution of the equations of motion of inviscid, incompressible fluids. In dimension two such limit solution exists on any arbitrary time interval, with no restriction on the size of the initial velocity. It is then natural to expect the same for the compressible solution, if the Mach number is sufficiently small. We consider smooth irrotational solutions. First, we study the life span, i.e. the largest time interval T(ε) of existence of classical solutions, when the initial data are a small perturbation of size εfrom a constant state. For the proof of this result we use a combination of energy and decay estimates. Then, the estimate of the life span allows to show, by a suitable scaling of variables, the existence of irrotational solutions on any arbitrary time interval, for any small enough Mach number. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Mixing and reacting flow with inflow–outflow boundary conditions

We consider the behaviour of mixing reacting compressible flows with inflow–outflow boundary conditions corresponding to the injection of reactants, fuel and oxidizer in a bounded region. Analytical results on the existence of solutions for small time and data are given in the two-dimensional case, using extensions of the techniques of Valli and Zajaczowski [Navier–Stokes equations for compressible fluids: global existence and qualitative properties of the solutions in the general case, Commun. Math. Phys. 103 (1986), 259–296]. As well, computational results are presented using finite difference methods.     

On the sharp singular limit for slightly compressible fluids

We consider the equations of motion to slightly compressible fluids and we prove that solutions converge, in the strong norm, to the solution of the equations of motion of incompressible fluids, as the Mach number goes to zero. From a physical point of view this means the following. Assume that we are dealing with a well-specified fluid, so slightly compressible that we assume it to be incompressible. Our result means that the distance between the (continuous) trajectories of the real and of the idealized solution is ‘small’ with respect to the natural metric, i.e. the metric that endows the data space.     

Computational study of shock waves propagating through air-plastic-water interfaces

The following study ismotivated by experimental studies in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Recent research has demonstrated that low intensity non-impact blast wave exposure frequently leads to mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI); however, the mechanisms connecting the blast waves and the mTBI remain unclear. Collaborators at the Seattle VA Hospital are doing experiments to understand how blast waves can produce mTBI. In order to gain insight that is hard to obtain by experimental means, we have developed conservative finite volume methods for interface-shock wave interaction to simulate these experiments. A 1D model of their experimental setup has been implemented using Euler equations for compressible fluids. These equations are coupled with a Tammann equation of state (EOS) that allows us to model compressible gas along with almost incompressible fluids or elastic solids. A hybrid HLLC-exact Eulerian-Lagrangian Riemann solver for Tammann EOS with a jump in the parameters has been developed. The model has shown that if the plastic interface is very thin, it can be neglected. This result might be very helpful to model more complicated setups in higher dimensions.     

A note on complete bounded trajectories and attractors for compressible self-gravitating fluids

In this paper we prove the boundedness for energy of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations for compressible self-gravitating fluids in time in bounded domains with arbitrary forces and the adiabatic constant γ∈(3/2,5/3]. Thus the results on the existence of complete bounded trajectories and attractors for compressible self-gravitating fluids can be generalized up to γ>3/2.     

On dynamics of fluids in meteorology

We consider the full Navier-Stokes-Fourier system of equations on an unbounded domain with prescribed nonvanishing boundary conditions for the density and temperature at infinity. The topic of this article continues author’s previous works on existence of the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system on nonsmooth domains. The procedure deeply relies on the techniques developed by Feireisl and others in the series of works on compressible, viscous and heat conducting fluids.     

Existence and uniqueness of steady solutions to the magnetohydrodynamic equations of compressible flows

We establish the existence and uniqueness of a strong solution to the steady magnetohydrodynamic equations for the compressible barotropic fluids in a bounded smooth domain with a perfectly conducting boundary, under the assumption that the external force field is small.     

Singular behavior of vacuum states for compressible fluids

In this survey paper, we will present the recent work on the study of the compressible fluids with vacuum states by illustrating its interesting and singular behavior through some systems of fluid dynamics, that is, Euler equations, Euler–Poisson equations and Navier–Stokes equations. The main concern is the well-posedness of the problem when vacuum presents and the singular behavior of the solution near the interface separating the vacuum and the gas. Furthermore, the relation of the solutions for the gas dynamics with vacuum to those of the Boltzmann equation will also be discussed. In fact, the results obtained so far for vacuum states are far from being complete and satisfactory. Therefore, this paper can only be served as an introduction to this interesting field which has many open and challenging mathematical problems. Moreover, the problems considered here are limited to the author's interest and knowledge in this area.     

Numerical simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

The compressible Navier-Stokes equations discretized with a fourth order accurate compact finite difference scheme with group velocity control are used to simulate the Richtmyer-Meshkov (R-M) instability problem produced by cylindrical shock-cylindrical material interface with shock Mach number Ms=1.2 and density ratio 1:20 (interior density/outer density). Effect of shock refraction, reflection, interaction of the reflected shock     

Initial boundary-value problems for equations of slightly compressible Jeffreys-Oldroyd fluids

The solvability of initial boundary value problems with adhesion and slippage boundary conditions for the equations of slightly compressible Jeffreys-Oldroyd fluids and penalized equations of Jeffreys-Oldroyd fluids in domains with smooth boundary is studied. Bibliography: 31 titles. Translated fromZapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 208, 1993, pp. 200–218. Translated by O. A. Ivanov.     

Blow-up criterion for three-dimensional compressible viscoelastic fluids with vacuum

In this paper, we study a Cauchy problem for the equations of 3D compressible viscoelastic fluids with vacuum. We establish a blow-up criterion for the local strong solutions in terms of the upper bound of the density and deformation gradient.