Date
Mon, 03 Dec 2018
Time
16:00 - 17:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Mikhail Feldman
Organisation
University of Wisconsin

We discuss shock reflection problem for compressible gas dynamics, von Neumann conjectures on transition between regular and Mach reflections, and existence of regular reflection solutions for potential flow equation. Then we will talk about recent results on uniqueness and stability of regular reflection solutions for potential flow equation in a natural class of self-similar solutions. The approach is to reduce the shock reflection problem to a free boundary problem for a nonlinear elliptic equation, and prove uniqueness by a version of method of continuity. A property of solutions important for the proof of uniqueness is convexity of the free boundary. 

This talk is based on joint works with G.-Q. Chen and W. Xiang.

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