Stability of Attached Transonic Shocks in Steady Potential Flow past Three-Dimensional Wedges

We develop a new approach and employ it to establish the global existence and nonlinear structural stability of attached weak transonic shocks in steady potential flow past three-dimensional wedges; in particular, the restriction that the perturbation is away from the wedge edge in the previous results is removed. One of the key ingredients is to identify a "good" direction of the boundary operator of a boundary condition of the shock along the wedge edge, based on the non-obliqueness of the boundary condition for the weak shock on the edge. With the identification of this direction, an additional boundary condition on the wedge edge can be assigned to make sure that the shock is attached on the edge and linearly stable under small perturbation. Based on the linear stability, we introduce an iteration scheme and prove that there exists a unique fixed point of the iteration scheme, which leads to the global existence and nonlinear structural stability of the attached weak transonic shock. This approach is based on neither the hodograph transformation nor the spectrum analysis, and should be useful for other problems with similar difficulties.

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