This chapter is devoted to study the Riemann problems for scalar conservation laws in one space dimension. In particular, we introduce the definitions of entropy and non-entropy shock waves, rarefaction waves and contact discontinuities by first considering genuinely nonlinear characteristic fields, linearly degenerate characteristic fields and then passing to general characteristic fields.


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    Title :

    The Riemann Problem


    Additional title:

    Understanding Complex Systems


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2013-01-01


    Size :

    8 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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