TY - JOUR T1 - Global Perturbation of the Riemann Problem for the System of Compressible Flow Through Porous Media AU - Shaoqiang Tang & Ling Xiao JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 4 SP - 351 EP - 370 PY - 1995 DA - 1995/08 SN - 8 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5667.html KW - Hyperbolic KW - Riemann problem KW - perturbation KW - global structure AB - In this paper we consider the unperturbatcd and perturbated Riemann problem for the damped quasiliuear hyperbolic system {v_t - u_x = 0 u_t + p(v)_x = -αu, α > 0, p'(v} < 0 with initial structure of two rarefaction waves or one rarefaction wave plus one shock wave. Under certain restrictions, it admits a unique global discontinuous solution in a class of piecewise continuous and piecewise smooth functions and keeps the initial structure. Moreover, the shock strength is found decaying exponentially due to damping for the later case.