Covariant approach to the interaction of a weak discontinuity with a shock wave

DOI10.1007/BF02849539zbMath0572.76061MaRDI QIDQ1062558

Alberto Strumia

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Rendiconti del Circolo Matemàtico di Palermo. Serie II (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

shock wavereflection and transmission coefficientsdiscontinuity waveevolutive Lax conditionexplicit covariant approachgeneral and polytropic relativistic fluidhyperbolic system of first order differential equationspseudo- Riemannian metricRankine-Hugoniot equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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