On the Riemann problem for the Adlam–Allen model *
Su Yang, Marco Calabrese, Vassilis Koukouloyannis, Panayotis G Kevrekidis
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Published: Sep 28, 2026
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/aea3c3
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Abstract In the present work, we revisit the Adlam–Allen (AA) model in order to investigate its numerically observed rarefaction and dispersive shock waves (DSWs) that arise in numerical simulations of the Riemann problem associated with the model. On the one hand, we perform a direct analysis of the rarefaction and DSWs of the AA model via examining its corresponding dispersionless system and leveraging the DSW-fitting method to obtain theoretical predictions on various edge features of the DSWs. On the other hand, we review the KdV reduction of the AA model and utilize the KdV DSW to approximate that of the AA model. Relevant numerical comparisons demonstrate the good performance of not only the direct analysis on the AA DSW, but also of the approximation via the KdV DSW. These methodologies provide a systematic toolbox for analyzing the outcome of Riemann problems in not only this fundamental setting of cold plasmas but also potentially in related plasma-physics problems.
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