A Review on Two Types of Sonic Interfaces

Abstract

In this paper, two examples of sonic interfaces ([2–6]) are presented. The first example shows the case of sonic interfaces as weak discontinuities in self-similar shock configurations of unsteady Euler system. The second example shows the case of sonic interfaces as regular interfaces in accelerating transonic flows governed by the steady Euler-Poisson system with self-generated electric forces. And, we discuss analytic differences of the two examples, and introduce an open problem on decelerating transonic solution to the steady Euler-Poisson system.