Existence of solutions to gas expansion problem through a sharp corner for 2-D Euler equations with general equation of state

Abstract

In this article, we study the gas expansion problem by turning a sharp corner into vacuum for the two-dimensional pseudo-steady compressible Euler equations with a convex equation of state. This problem can be considered as interaction of a centered simple wave with a planar rarefaction wave. In order to obtain the global existence of solution up to vacuum boundary of the corresponding two-dimensional Riemann problem, we consider several Goursat type boundary value problems for 2-D self-similar Euler equations and use the ideas of characteristic decomposition and bootstrap method. Further, we formulate two-dimensional modified shallow water equations newly and solve a dam-break type problem for them as an application of this work. Moreover, we also recover the results from the available literature for certain equation of states which provide a check that the results obtained in this article are actually correct.