Abstract
The expansion of a wedge of magnetic fluid into vacuum is studied in this paper. The magnetic fluid away from the sharp corner of a wedge expands into the vacuum as two plane-symmetric rarefaction waves, and the problem can be reduced to the interaction of these two rarefaction waves. In order to determine the flow in the interaction zone, we formulate a Goursat problem for the two-dimensional, self-similar Euler equations of magnetohydrodynamic. This system is of mixed type, and the type at each point is determined by the local fluid velocity and the local magneto-acoustic speed. We establish that the system is uniformly hyperbolic in the interaction zone when the half-angle of the wedge is less than some angle [Formula: see text], while the existence of a global classical solution to the Goursat problem is proven by a method of characteristic decomposition.
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