We consider front tracking approximate solutions to the p-system of isentropic gas dynamics. At interaction times, the outgoing wave fronts have the same strength as in the exact solution of the Riemann problem, but some error is allowed in their speed. For large BV initial data, we construct examples showing that the total variation of these approximate solutions can become arbitrarily large, or even blow up in finite time. This happens even if the density of the gas remains uniformly positive. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Key Laboratory of Mathematical Modelling and High Performance Computing of Air Vehicles (NUAA), MIITDepartment of Mathematics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics