The
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, USA) awards the
SIAG/Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Prize (one prize every
two years) to the authors of the most outstanding paper, as determined
by the committee, on a topic in Partial Differential Equations published
in English in a peer-reviewed journal in the four calendar years
preceding the year of the award.
The
committee wishes to recognize Gui-Qiang G. Chen and Mikhail Feldman for
their paper, "Global Solutions of Shock Reflection by Large-Angle
Wedges for Potential Flow," Annals of Mathematics, Volume 171, Issue 2
(2010), 1067-1182, "in which they proved the existence and stability of a
solution for the equations of two-dimensional compressible gas
dynamics, for the case of a shock reflection from a wedge. This
problem, originating with work of Ernst Mach, has long defied careful
mathematical analysis."
