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Systems of Conservation Laws 2: Geometric Structures, Oscillations, and Initial-Boundary Value Problems: 002

Systems of Conservation Laws 2: Geometric Structures, Oscillations, and Initial-Boundary Value Problems: 002

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Denis Serre
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 2/3/2000
EAN 9780521633307, ISBN10: 0521633303

Hardcover, 282 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 1.8 cm
Language: English

Systems of conservation laws arise naturally in physics and chemistry. Following on from the previous volume, the author considers the maximum principle from the viewpoints of both viscous approximation and numerical schemes. Convergence is studied through compensated compactness. This tool is applied to the description of large amplitude wave propagation. Small waves are studied through geometrical optics. Special structures are presented in chapters on Rich and Temple systems. Finally, Serre explains why the initial-boundary value problem is far from trivial, with descriptions of the Kreiss–Lopatinski condition for well-posedness, with applications to shock wave stability, and certain problems in boundary layer theory. Throughout the presentation is reasonably self-contained, with large numbers of exercises and full discussion of all the ideas. This will make it ideal as a text for graduate courses in the area of partial differential equations.

8. The maximum principle
9. Compensated compactness
10. Propagation of oscillations
11. Weakly nonlinear geometric optics
12. Rich systems
13. Temple fields and systems
14. Boundary conditions and mixed problems
15. Boundary layers
Bibliography
Index.