Ray theories for hyperbolic waves, kinematical conservation laws (KCL) and applications

zbMath1144.35364MaRDI QIDQ932518

Phoolan Prasad

Publication date: 11 July 2008

Published in: Indian Journal of Pure \& Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear wavesFermat's principlesonic boomshock propagationcurved shockbicharacteristic lemmahyperbolic system of quasilinear equationssuccessive positions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20)

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