Abstract:
In the proposed paper, the process of propagation of shock waves in
two-dimensional media without its own pressure drop is studied. The
model of such media is a system of equations of gas dynamics, where
formally the pressure is assumed to be zero. From the point of view
of the theory of systems of conservation laws, the system of
equations under consideration is in some sense degenerate, and,
consequently, the corresponding generalized solutions have strong
singularities (evolving shock waves with density in the form of
delta functions on manifolds of different dimensions). We will
denote this property as the evolution of the hierarchy of strong
singularities or the evolution of the hierarchy of shock waves. In
the paper, in the two-dimensional case, the existence of such an interaction of strong singularities with density delta function
along curves in the space $\mathbb{R}^2$ is proved, at which a density concentration occurs at a point, that is, a hierarchy of
shock waves arises. The properties of such dynamics of strong
singularities are described. The results obtained provide a starting
point for moving on to a much more interesting multidimensional
case in the future.