partial-differential-equations

Entropy conditions and admissible shocks

taught

Apply the Lax entropy condition to distinguish a physically admissible shock from an inadmissible jump satisfying Rankine-Hugoniot in only a formal sense.

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Entropy conditions and admissible shocks
Partial Differential Equations

Requires

rankine-hugoniot-general-flux required

Required by

Rarefaction waves required
The calculus of variations connection: Dirichlet's principle, revisited required

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