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Decay of solutions of systems of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws
About this Title
James Glimm and Peter D. Lax
Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year:
1970; Number 101
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1801-5 (print); 978-0-8218-9891-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0101
MathSciNet review: 0265767
Table of Contents
Chapters
- 1. The widening of rarefaction waves
- 2. Approximate conservation laws and approximate characteristics
- 3. The construction of exact solutions as a limit of approximate solutions
- 4. The spreading and cancellation of rarefaction waves
- 5. The existence and decay of solutions with arbitrary Cauchy data near a constant state