Why is a shock not a caustic? The higher-order Stokes phenomenon and smoothed shock formation
The formation of shocks in waves of advance in nonlinear partial differential equations is a well-explored problem and has been studied using many different techniques. In this paper we demonstrate how an exponential-asymptotic approach can be used to completely characterize the shock formation in a...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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