SES CHARLES V. SCHAEFER, JR.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM

Transonic flows for full Euler equations


Dr. Jun Chen
Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin



Tuesday, February 19, 2008
4:00pm
Peirce 116


Abstract:  Transonic flows arise naturally from many important physical phenomena, such as gases in rocket engines and around aircrafts. In this talk, I will focus on transonic shocks in infinite nozzles. The flows are governed by compressible Euler equations. I will talk about the settings and main results. Also, some technical details will be mentioned related to shocks and elliptic estimates. We conclude the stability of transonic flows in the nozzles near constant states.


Refreshments served at 3:45pm.
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