Transonic shock reflection problems for the self-similar two-dimensional nonlinear wave system

Abstract

We discuss the regular transonic shock reflections for a model problem of multidimensional conservation laws, the nonlinear wave system. We consider two incident shocks that create reflected shocks, and the state behind the reflected shocks becomes subsonic. We present the existence of the global solution to this configuration, and provide an analysis to handle a degeneracy occurred in the problem and Lipschitz estimates near the sonic boundary. We further implement Lax–Liu positive schemes and Strang splitting, and obtain linear correlations of the incident shock strength and the reflected shock strength. The result obtained in this paper develops a mathematical theory of transonic shock reflection problems. Furthermore the numerical result provides better understanding of the solution structure. This paper provides an application of an important physical problem.