Interaction of Rarefaction Waves of the Two-Dimensional Self-Similar Euler Equations
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Classical self-similar solutions to the interaction of two arbitrary planar rarefaction waves for the polytropic Euler equations in two space dimensions are constructed. The binary interaction represents a major type of interaction in the two-dimensional Riemann problems, and includes in particular the classical problem of the expansion of a wedge of gas into vacuum. Based on the hodograph transformation, the method involves the phase space analysis of a second-order equation and the inversion back to (or development onto) the physical space.
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