Hyperbolic Conservation Laws in Continuum Physics

by: Constantine M. Dafermos

Hyperbolic Conservation Laws in Continuum Physics
Author: Constantine M. Dafermos

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

Series: Grundlehren Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 18 January 2010

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ISBN: 3642040470 ISBN 13: 9783642040474

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Publisher & Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

Edition details 3rd edition

City: Berlin

Pages: 745

More info: height 235 mm width 155 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey: 530.1553535

Summary Hyperbolic Conservation Laws in Continuum Physics Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- A Sketch of the Early History of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.- I.Balance Laws.- II.Introduction to Continuum Physics.- III.Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws.- IV.The Cauchy Problem.- V.Entropy and the Stability of Classical Solutions.- VI.The L1 Theory for Scalar Conservation Laws.- VII.Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws in One-Space Dimension.- VIII.Admissible Shocks.- IX.AdmissibleWave Fans and the Riemann Problem.- X.Generalized Characteristics.- XI.Genuinely Nonlinear Scalar Conservation Laws.- XII.Genuinely Nonlinear Systems of Two Conservation Laws.- XIII.The Random Choice Method.- XIV.The Front Tracking Method and Standard Riemann Semigroups.- XV.Construction of BV Solutions by the Vanishing Viscosity Method.- XVI.Compensated Compactness.-XVII.Conservation Laws in Two Space Dimensions.- Bibliography.- Author Index.- Subject Index. Top page

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