Singularity for the macroscopic production model with Chaplygin gas

Abstract In this article, we investigate the formation of singularities in solutions of homogeneous and inhomogeneous systems for a macroscopic production model with Chaplygin gas using the method of characteristic decomposition. It is a model originating from production planning in supply chains. Since the model with the Chaplygin gas equation of state is a strictly hyperbolic system with both linearly degenerate characteristic field and genuinely nonlinear characteristic field, we can simultaneously study the blow-up of the solution itself and the blow-up of the derivative of the solution, in which the blow-up of the solution itself corresponds to the bottlenecks in the supply chains. Besides, we obtain the C 1 C^1 estimates of the solution before the solution itself blows up. In addition, we give some representative examples of numerical simulations concerning the generation of singularities of solutions.