Global solutions with shock waves to the generalized Riemann problem for a class of quasilinear hyperbolic systems of balance laws II

This work is a continuation of our previous work. In the present paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of global piecewise C-1 solutions with shock waves to the generalized Riemann problem for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with linear damping in the presence of a boundary. It is shown that the generalized Riemann problem for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with linear damping with nonlinear boundary conditions in the half space {(t, x) vertical bar t >= 0, x >= 0} admits a unique global piecewise C-1 solution u = u(t, x) containing only shock waves with small amplitude and this solution possesses a global structure similar to that of a self-similar solution u = U(x/t) of the corresponding homogeneous Riemann problem, if each characteristic field with positive velocity is genuinely nonlinear and the corresponding homogeneous Riemann problem has only shock waves but no rarefaction waves and contact discontinuities. This result is also applied to shock reflection for the flow equations of a model class of fluids with viscosity induced by fading memory. (C) 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. Weinheim.