THE RIEMANN PROBLEM FOR ISENTROPIC COMPRESSIBLE EULER EQUATIONS WITH DISCONTINUOUS FLUX

We consider the singular Riemann problem for the rectilinear isentropic compressible Euler equations with discontinuous flux,more specifically,for pressureless flow on the left and polytropic flow on the right separated by a discontinuity x=x(t).We prove that this problem admits global Radon measure solutions for all kinds of initial data.The over-compressing condition on the discontinuity x=x(t)is not enough to ensure the uniqueness of the solution.However,there is a unique piecewise smooth solution if one proposes a slip condition on the right-side of the curve x=x(t)+0,in addition to the full adhesion condition on its left-side.As an application,we study a free piston problem with the piston in a tube surrounded initially by uniform pressureless flow and a polytropic gas.In particular,we obtain the existence of a piecewise smooth solution for the motion of the piston between a vacuum and a polytropic gas.This indicates that the singular Riemann problem looks like a control problem in the sense that one could adjust the condition on the discontinuity of the flux to obtain the desired flow field.

Euler’s First-Order Explicit Method–Peridynamic Differential Operator for Solving Population Balance Equations of the Crystallization Process

Using Euler’s first-order explicit(EE)method and the peridynamic differential operator(PDDO)to discretize the time and internal crystal-size derivatives,respectively,the Euler’s first-order explicit method–peridynamic differential operator(EE–PDDO)was obtained for solving the one-dimensional population balance equation in crystallization.Four different conditions during crystallization were studied:size-independent growth,sizedependent growth in a batch process,nucleation and size-independent growth,and nucleation and size-dependent growth in a continuous process.The high accuracy of the EE–PDDO method was confirmed by comparing it with the numerical results obtained using the second-order upwind and HR-van methods.The method is characterized by non-oscillation and high accuracy,especially in the discontinuous and sharp crystal size distribution.The stability of the EE–PDDO method,choice of weight function in the PDDO method,and optimal time step are also discussed.

Radon Measure Solutions to Riemann Problems for Isentropic Compressible Euler Equations of Polytropic Gases

We solve the Riemann problems for isentropic compressible Euler equations of polytropic gases in the class of Radon measures,and the solutions admit the concentration of mass.It is found that under the requirement of satisfying the over-compressing entropy condition:(i)there is a unique delta shock solution,corresponding to the case that has two strong classical Lax shocks;(ii)for the initial data that the classical Riemann solution contains a shock wave and a rarefaction wave,or two shocks with one being weak,there are infinitely many solutions,each consists of a delta shock and a rarefaction wave;(iii)there are no delta shocks for the case that the classical entropy weak solutions consist only of rarefaction waves.These solutions are self-similar.Furthermore,for the generalized Riemann problem with mass concentrated initially at the discontinuous point of initial data,there always exists a unique delta shock for at least a short time.It could be prolonged to a global solution.Not all the solutions are self-similar due to the initial velocity of the concentrated point-mass(particle).Whether the delta shock solutions constructed satisfy the over-compressing entropy condition is clarified.This is the first result on the construction of singular measure solutions to the compressible Euler system of polytropic gases,that is strictly hyperbolic,and whose characteristics are both genuinely nonlinear.We also discuss possible physical interpretations and applications of these new solutions.

A Fourth-Order Unstructured NURBS-Enhanced Finite Volume WENO Scheme for Steady Euler Equations in Curved Geometries

In Li and Ren(Int.J.Numer.Methods Fluids 70:742–763,2012),a high-order k-exact WENO finite volume scheme based on secondary reconstructions was proposed to solve the two-dimensional time-dependent Euler equations in a polygonal domain,in which the high-order numerical accuracy and the oscillations-free property can be achieved.In this paper,the method is extended to solve steady state problems imposed in a curved physical domain.The numerical framework consists of a Newton type finite volume method to linearize the nonlinear governing equations,and a geometrical multigrid method to solve the derived linear system.To achieve high-order non-oscillatory numerical solutions,the classical k-exact reconstruction with k=3 and the efficient secondary reconstructions are used to perform the WENO reconstruction for the conservative variables.The non-uniform rational B-splines(NURBS)curve is used to provide an exact or a high-order representation of the curved wall boundary.Furthermore,an enlarged reconstruction patch is constructed for every element of mesh to significantly improve the convergence to steady state.A variety of numerical examples are presented to show the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.

Conical Sonic-Supersonic Solutions for the 3-D Steady Full Euler Equations

This paper concerns the sonic-supersonic structures of the transonic crossflow generated by the steady supersonic flow past an infinite cone of arbitrary cross section.Under the conical assumption,the three-dimensional(3-D)steady Euler equations can be projected onto the unit sphere and the state of fluid can be characterized by the polar and azimuthal angles.Given a segment smooth curve as a conical-sonic line in the polar-azimuthal angle plane,we construct a classical conical-supersonic solution near the curve under some reasonable assumptions.To overcome the difficulty caused by the parabolic degeneracy,we apply the characteristic decomposition technique to transform the Euler equations into a new degenerate hyperbolic system in a partial hodograph plane.The singular terms are isolated from the highly nonlinear complicated system and then can be handled successfully.We establish a smooth local solution to the new system in a suitable weighted metric space and then express the solution in terms of the original variables.

Blowup of Solutions to the Non-Isentropic Compressible Euler Equations with Time-Dependent Damping and Vacuum

This paper mainly studies the blowup phenomenon of solutions to the compressible Euler equations with general time-dependent damping for non-isentropic fluids in two and three space dimensions. When the initial data is assumed to be radially symmetric and the initial density contains vacuum, we obtain that classical solution, especially the density, will blow up on finite time. The results also reveal that damping can really delay the singularity formation.

MESH FREE ADAPTIVE ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING EULER EQUATIONS ON STRUCTURED GRID POINTS

A complete mesh free adaptive algorithm （MFAA）, with solution adaptation and geometric adaptation, is developed to improve the resolution of flow features and to replace traditional global refinement techniques in structured grids. Unnecessary redundant points and elements are avoided by using the mesh free local clouds refinement technology in shock influencing regions and regions near large curvature places on the boundary. Inviscid compressible flows over NACA0012 and RAE2822 airfoils are computed. Finally numerical results validate the accuracy of the above method.

HIGH RESOLUTION POSITIVITY-PRESERVING DIFFERENCE SCHEMES FOR TWO DIMENSIONAL EULER EQUATIONS

A class of high resolution positivity preserving Boltzmann type difference schemes for one and two dimensional Euler equations is studied. First, the relation between Boltzmann and Euler equations is analyzed. By using a kind of special interpolation, the high resolution Boltzmann type difference scheme is constructed. Finally, numerical tests show that the schemes are effective and useful.

THE SINGULAR LIMIT OF SECOND-GRADE FLUID EQUATIONS IN A 2D EXTERIOR DOMAIN

In this paper, we consider the second-grade fluid equations in a 2D exterior domain satisfying the non-slip boundary conditions. The second-grade fluid model is a wellknown non-Newtonian fluid model, with two parameters: α, which represents the length-scale,while ν > 0 corresponds to the viscosity. We prove that, as ν, α tend to zero, the solution of the second-grade fluid equations with suitable initial data converges to the one of Euler equations, provided that ν = o(α^(4/3)). Moreover, the convergent rate is obtained.

A Posteriori Stabilized Sixth-Order Finite Volume Scheme with Adaptive Stencil Construction:Basics for the 1D Steady-State Hyperbolic Equations

We propose an adaptive stencil construction for high-order accurate finite volume schemes a posteriori stabilized devoted to solve one-dimensional steady-state hyperbolic equations.High accuracy(up to the sixth-order presently)is achieved,thanks to polynomial recon-structions while stability is provided with an a posteriori MOOD method which controls the cell polynomial degree for eliminating non-physical oscillations in the vicinity of dis-continuities.We supplemented this scheme with a stencil construction allowing to reduce even further the numerical dissipation.The stencil is shifted away from troubles(shocks,discontinuities,etc.)leading to less oscillating polynomial reconstructions.Experimented on linear,Burgers',and Euler equations,we demonstrate that the adaptive stencil technique manages to retrieve smooth solutions with optimal order of accuracy but also irregular ones without spurious oscillations.Moreover,we numerically show that the approach allows to reduce the dissipation still maintaining the essentially non-oscillatory behavior.

On the Approximation of Fractal-Fractional Differential Equations Using Numerical Inverse Laplace Transform Methods

Laplace transform is one of the powerful tools for solving differential equations in engineering and other science subjects.Using the Laplace transform for solving differential equations,however,sometimes leads to solutions in the Laplace domain that are not readily invertible to the real domain by analyticalmeans.Thus,we need numerical inversionmethods to convert the obtained solution fromLaplace domain to a real domain.In this paper,we propose a numerical scheme based on Laplace transform and numerical inverse Laplace transform for the approximate solution of fractal-fractional differential equations with orderα,β.Our proposed numerical scheme is based on three main steps.First,we convert the given fractal-fractional differential equation to fractional-differential equation in Riemann-Liouville sense,and then into Caputo sense.Secondly,we transformthe fractional differential equation in Caputo sense to an equivalent equation in Laplace space.Then the solution of the transformed equation is obtained in Laplace domain.Finally,the solution is converted into the real domain using numerical inversion of Laplace transform.Three inversion methods are evaluated in this paper,and their convergence is also discussed.Three test problems are used to validate the inversion methods.We demonstrate our results with the help of tables and figures.The obtained results show that Euler’s and Talbot’s methods performed better than Stehfest’s method.

On the Construction and Classification of the Common Invariant Solutions for Some P(1,4) -Invariant Partial Differential Equations

We consider the following (1 + 3)-dimensional P(1,4)-invariant partial differential equations (PDEs): the Eikonal equation, the Euler-Lagrange-Born-Infeld equation, the homogeneous Monge-Ampère equation, the inhomogeneous Monge-Ampère equation. The purpose of this paper is to construct and classify the common invariant solutions for those equations. For this aim, we have used the results concerning construction and classification of invariant solutions for the (1 + 3)-dimensional P(1,4)-invariant Eikonal equation, since this equation is the simplest among the equations under investigation. The direct checked allowed us to conclude that the majority of invariant solutions of the (1 + 3)-dimensional Eikonal equation, obtained on the base of low-dimensional (dimL ≤ 3) nonconjugate subalgebras of the Lie algebra of the Poincaré group P(1,4), satisfy all the equations under investigation. In this paper, we present obtained common invariant solutions of the equations under study as well as the classification of those invariant solutions.

GLOBAL EXISTENCE AND ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR FOR THE 3D COMPRESSIBLE NON–ISENTROPIC EULER EQUATIONS WITH DAMPING

We investigate the global existence and asymptotic behavior of classical solutions for the 3D compressible non-isentropic damped Euler equations on a periodic domain. The global existence and uniqueness of classical solutions are obtained when the initial data is near an equilibrium. Furthermore, the exponential convergence rates of the pressure and velocity are also proved by delicate energy methods.

UNCONDITIONAL STABLE SOLUTIONS OF THE EULER EQUATIONS FOR TWO－AND THREE－D WINGS IN ARBITRARY MOTION

The work presented here shows the unsteady inviscid results obtained for the twoand three-dimensional wings which are in rigid and flexible osciliations.The results are generated by a finite volume Euler method. It is based on theRunge- Kutta time stepping scheme developed by Jameson et al.. To increase the timestep which is limited by the stability of Runge-Kutta scheme, the implicit residualsmoothing which is modified by using variable coefficients io prerent the loss of flowphysics for the unsteady flows is engaged in the calculations. With this unconditionalstable solver the unsteady flws about the wings in arbitrary motion can be receivedefficiently.The two- and three-dimensional rectangular wings which are in rigid andflexible pitching oscillations in the transonic flow are invesigated here, some of thecomputational results are compared with the experimental data. The influence of thereduced frequency for the two kinds of the wings are researched. All the results givenin this work are reasonable.

ON THE GLOBAL EXISTENCE OF SMOOTH SOLUTIONS TO THE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL COMPRESSIBLE EULER EQUATIONS WITH TIME-DEPENDING DAMPING IN HALF SPACE

This paper is a continue work of [4, 5]. In the previous two papers, we studied the Cauchy problem of the multi-dimensional compressible Euler equations with time-depending damping term --u/（1＋t）λpu, where λ≥ 0 and μ 〉 0 are constants. We have showed that, for all λ ≥ 0 andμ 〉 0 the smooth solution to the Cauchy problem exists globally or blows up in finite time. In the present paper, instead of the Cauchy problem we consider the initial- boundary value problem in the half space R＋^d with space dimension d = 2, 3. With the help of the special structure of the equations and the fluid vorticity, we overcome the difficulty arisen from the boundary effect. We prove that there exists a global smooth solution for 0 ≤λ 〈 1 when the initial data is close to its equilibrium state. In addition, exponential decay of the fluid vorticity will also be established.

A Gridless-Finite Volume Hybrid Algorithm for Euler Equations

A fast hybrid algorithm based on gridless method coupled with finite volume method （FVM） is developed for the solution to Euler equations. Compared with pure gridless method, the efficiency of the hybrid algorithm is improved to the level of finite volume method for most parts of the flow filed arc covered with grid cells. Moreover, the hybrid method is flexible to deal with the configurations as clouds of points are used to cover the region adjacent to the bodies. Mirror satellites and mirror grid cells arc introduced to the interface to accomplish data communication between the different parts of the flow field. The Euler Equations arc spatially discretized with finite volume method and gridless method in mesh and clouds of points respectively, and an explicit four-stage Runge-Kutta scheme is utilized to reach the steady-state solution. Internal flows in channels and external flows over airfoils arc investigated with hybrid method, and the solutions arc comparad to those using pure finite volume method and pure gridless method. Numerical examples show that the hybrid algorithm captures the shock waves accurately, and it is as efficient as fmite volume method.

TWO-DIMENSIONAL RIEMANN PROBLEMS:FROM SCALAR CONSERVATION LAWS TO COMPRESSIBLE EULER EQUATIONS

In this paper we survey the authors＇ and related work on two-dimensional Riemann problems for hyperbolic conservation laws, mainly those related to the compressible Euler equations in gas dynamics. It contains four sections： 1. Historical review. 2. Scalar conservation laws. 3. Euler equations. 4. Simplified models.

ON THE WELL POSEDNESS OF INITIAL VALUE PROBLEM FOR EULER EQUATIONS OF INCOMPRESSIBLE INVISCID FLUID (Ⅱ)

The solvability of the Euler equations about incompressible inviscid fluid based on the stratification theory is discussed. And the conditions for the existence of formal solutions and the methods are presented for calculating all kinds of ill-posed initial value problems. Two examples are given as the evidences that the initial problems at the hyper surface does not exist any unique solution.

The discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method for one-dimensional compressible Euler equations in the Lagrangian coordinate

In this paper, a Petrov-Galerkin scheme named the Runge-Kutta control volume （RKCV） discontinuous finite ele- ment method is constructed to solve the one-dimensional compressible Euler equations in the Lagrangian coordinate. Its advantages include preservation of the local conservation and a high resolution. Compared with the Runge-Kutta discon- tinuous Galerkin （RKDG） method, the RKCV method is easier to implement. Moreover, the advantages of the RKCV and the Lagrangian methods are combined in the new method. Several numerical examples are given to illustrate the accuracy and the reliability of the algorithm.

SIMPLE WAVES OF THE TWO DIMENSIONAL COMPRESSIBLE FULL EULER EQUATIONS

In this paper, we establish the existence of four families of simple wave solu- tion for two dimensional compressible full Euler system in the self-similar plane. For the 2 × 2 quasilinear non-reducible hyperbolic system, there not necessarily exists any simple wave solution. We prove the result that there are simple wave solutions for this 4× 4 non- reducible hyperbolic system, its simple wave flow is covered by four straight characteristics λ0 =λ1,λA2, λ3 and the solutions keep constants along these lines. We also investigate the existence of simple wave solution for the isentropic relativistic hydrodynamic system in the self-similar plane.