Delta shock wave for a \(3 \times 3\) hyperbolic system of conservation laws

Abstract

We study the one-dimensional Riemann problem for a hyperbolic system of three conservation laws of Temple class. This systems it is a simplification of a recently propose system of five conservations laws by Bouchut and Boyaval that model viscoelastic fluids. An important issues is that the considered \(3 \times 3\) system is such that every characteristic field is linearly degenerate. We show the Riemann problem for this system. Under suitable generalized Rankine-Hugoniot relation and entropy condition, both existence and uniqueness of particular delta-shock type solutions are established.