Shocks Violating Lax's Condition Are Unstable.

Abstract

In the paper the authors show, for a hyperbolic system of two conservation laws, that weak solutions which violate the Lax shock conditions, are unstable relative to smoothing of the initial data. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0755066

Entities

People

  • E. D. Conway
  • J. A. Smoller

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)