Existence of multidimensional shock waves. and phase boundaries

In this paper, a kind of Riemann problem for the Euler equations in a van der Waals fluid is considered. We constructed the weak solution in multidimensional space which contains one shock front and one subsonic phase boundary. We mainly follow the arguments of Majda's [A. Majda, The stability of multi-dimensional shock fronts, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 275 (1983) 1-95; A. Majda, The existence of multi-dimensional shock fronts, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 281 (1983) 1-93] and Metivier's [G. Metivier, Interaction de deux chocs pour un systeme de deux lois de conservation, en dimension deux d'espace, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 296 (1986) 431-479] work. The linear stability results are based on Majda's [A. Majda, The stability of multi-dimensional shock fronts, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 275 (1983) 1-95] work for the single shock front and Wang and Xin's [Y.-G. Wang, Z. Xin, Stability and existence of multidimensional subsonic phase transitions, Acta Math. Appl. Sin. 19 (2003) 529-558] work for the single phase boundary. The initial boundary value problem concerned in this paper is different from the boundary value problem for double shock fronts concerned in [G. Metivier, Interaction de deux chocs pour un systeme de deux lois de conservation, en dimension deux d'espace, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 296 (1986) 431-479], we slightly modified Metivier's frame work to establish the existence for the solution to the nonlinear problem. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.