Abstract
Subsonically propagating phase boundaries (kinks) can be modelled by material discontinuities which satisfy integral conservation laws plus an additional jump condition governing the phase-change kinetics. The necessity of an additional jump condition distinguishes kinks from the conventional shocks which satisfy the Lax criterion. We study stability of kinks with respect to the breakup (splitting) into a sequence of waves. We assume that all conventional shocks are admissible and that admissible kinks are selected by a prescribed kinetic relation. As we show, regardless of a particular choice of the kinetic relation, sufficiently fast-phase boundaries are unstable. The mode of instability includes an emission of a centered Riemann wave followed by a sonic shock (Chapman-Jouguet type phase boundary).
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