Hamilton’s Principle and Rankine-Hugoniot Conditions for General Motions of Fluid Mixtures

Abstract. In previous papers [1-2], we have presented hyperbolic governing equations and jump conditions for barotropic fluid mixtures. Now we extend our results to the most general case of two-fluid conservative mixtures taking into account the entropies of components. We obtain governing equations for each component of the medium. This is not a system of conservation laws. Nevertheless, using Hamilton’s principle we are able to obtain a complete set of Rankine-Hugoniot conditions. In particular, for the gas dynamics they coincide with classical jump conditions of conservation of momentum and energy. For the two-fluid case, the jump relations do not involve the conservation of the total momentum and the total energy.