Covariant approach to the interaction of a weak discontinuity with a shock wave
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Covariant approach to the interaction of a weak discontinuity with a shock wave
zbMATH Open document ID: 0572.76061
DOI: 10.1007/BF02849539
author: Alberto Strumia
publication date: 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: An explicit covariant approach to the problem of evaluating the reflection and transmission coefficients of the fastest discontinuity wave impacting on a shock wave is carried out and applications to the general and polytropic relativistic fluid are performed.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76L05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76Y05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35Q99
zbMATH DE Number: 3913945
zbMATH Keywords: hyperbolic system of first order differential equations
zbMATH Keywords: pseudo- Riemannian metric
zbMATH Keywords: evolutive Lax condition
zbMATH Keywords: Rankine-Hugoniot equation
zbMATH Keywords: explicit covariant approach
zbMATH Keywords: reflection and transmission coefficients
zbMATH Keywords: discontinuity wave
zbMATH Keywords: shock wave
zbMATH Keywords: general and polytropic relativistic fluid
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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published in: Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3913945