Three-dimensional steady transonic shocks for the relativistic Euler equations
Abstract
We investigates the transonic shock problem for steady relativistic Euler equations in hemispherical shells. We show the existence and uniqueness of spherically symmetric transonic shock solutions via the shooting method and the monotonicity between the exit pressure and shock position. Furthermore, without any restrictions on background transonic shocks, we prove the existence and stability of transonic shocks under three dimensional perturbations of the exit pressure. The key techniques involve the decoupling the hyperbolic and elliptic components in steady relativistic Euler equations using the deformation tensor and vorticity. To address the coordinate singularities, the ``spherical projection coordinates" combining the spherical coordinates and the stereographic projection is employed. Subsequently, the Rankine-Hugoniot conditions are appropriately reformulated to determine the shock front and derive the boundary conditions on the shock front for a first-order nonlocal deformation-curl system.
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BibTeX
@misc{weng2026threedimensional,
title = {{Three-dimensional steady transonic shocks for the relativistic Euler equations}},
author = {Shangkun Weng and Yan Zhou},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.09522},
eprint = {2609.09522},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09522},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Three-dimensional steady transonic shocks for the relativistic Euler equations
AU - Shangkun Weng
AU - Yan Zhou
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/08
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.09522
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09522
AB - We investigates the transonic shock problem for steady relativistic Euler equations in hemispherical shells. We show the existence and uniqueness of spherically symmetric transonic shock solutions via the shooting method and the monotonicity between the exit pressure and shock position. Furthermore, without any restrictions on background transonic shocks, we prove the existence and stability of transonic shocks under three dimensional perturbations of the exit pressure. The key techniques involve the decoupling the hyperbolic and elliptic components in steady relativistic Euler equations using the deformation tensor and vorticity. To address the coordinate singularities, the ``spherical projection coordinates" combining the spherical coordinates and the stereographic projection is employed. Subsequently, the Rankine-Hugoniot conditions are appropriately reformulated to determine the shock front and derive the boundary conditions on the shock front for a first-order nonlocal deformation-curl system.
ER -