Delta shock wave for a $3 \times 3$ hyperbolic system of conservation laws

Abstract

We study the one-dimensional Riemann problem for a hyperbolic system of three conservation laws of Temple class. This systems it is a simplification of a recently propose system of five conservations laws by Bouchut and Boyaval that model viscoelastic fluids. An important issues is that the considered $3 \times 3$ system is such that every characteristic field is linearly degenerate. We show the Riemann problem for this system. Under suitable generalized Rankine-Hugoniot relation and entropy condition, both existence and uniqueness of particular delta-shock type solutions are established.