Four-Quadrant Riemann Problem for a 2×2 System II

Abstract

In previous work, we considered a four-quadrant Riemann problem for a 2×2 hyperbolic system in which delta shock appears at the initial discontinuity without assuming that each jump of the initial data projects exactly one plane elementary wave. In this paper, we consider the case that does not involve a delta shock at the initial discontinuity. We classified 18 topologically distinct solutions and constructed analytic and numerical solutions for each case. The constructed analytic solutions show the rich structure of wave interactions in the Riemann problem, which coincide with the computed numerical solutions.