Stable Shock Formation for Nearly Simple Outgoing Plane Symmetric Waves

© 2016, Springer International Publishing AG. In an influential 1964 article, P. Lax studied 2 × 2 genuinely nonlinear strictly hyperbolic PDE systems (in one spatial dimension). Using the method of Riemann invariants, he showed that a large set of smooth initial data lead to bounded solutions whose...

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Main Authors: Speck, Jared, Holzegel, Gustav, Luk, Jonathan, Wong, Willie
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133378