scholarly journals The regularity of a degenerate Goursat problem for the 2-D isothermal Euler equations

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3317-3336
Author(s):  
Yanbo Hu ◽  
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Tong Li ◽  
Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 1039
Author(s):  
Maren Hantke ◽  
Ferdinand Thein

Liquid–vapor flows exhibiting phase transition, including phase creation in single-phase flows, are of high interest in mathematics, as well as in the engineering sciences. In two preceding articles the authors showed on the one hand the capability of the isothermal Euler equations to describe such phenomena (Hantke and Thein, arXiv, 2017, arXiv:1703.09431). On the other hand they proved the nonexistence of certain phase creation phenomena in flows governed by the full system of Euler equations, see Hantke and Thein, Quart. Appl. Math. 2015, 73, 575–591. In this note, the authors close the gap for two-phase flows by showing that the two-phase flows considered are not possible when the flow is governed by the full Euler equations, together with the regular Rankine-Hugoniot conditions. The arguments rely on the fact that for (regular) fluids, the differences of the entropy and the enthalpy between the liquid and the vapor phase of a single substance have a strict sign below the critical point.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 595-637
Author(s):  
Maren Hantke ◽  
Ferdinand Thein

Liquid–vapor flows with phase transitions have a wide range of applications. Isothermal two-phase flows described by a single set of isothermal Euler equations, where the mass transfer is modeled by a kinetic relation, have been investigated analytically in [M. Hantke, W. Dreyer and G. Warnecke, Exact solutions to the Riemann problem for compressible isothermal Euler equations for two-phase flows with and without phase transition, Quart. Appl. Math. 71(3) (2013) 509–540]. This work was restricted to liquid water and its vapor modeled by linear equations of state. The focus of this work lies on the generalization of the primary results to arbitrary substances, arbitrary equations of state and thus a more general kinetic relation. We prove existence and uniqueness results for Riemann problems. In particular, nucleation and cavitation are discussed.


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