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The stability of multidimensional shock fronts

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Andrew Majda

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1983; Volume 41, Number 275
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2275-3 (print); 978-1-4704-0685-1 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0275
MathSciNet review: 683422
MSC: Primary 35L67; Secondary 76L05

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The linearization of a curved shock front: The main theorems for variable coefficients
  • 3. A general discussion of the uniform stability conditions and the physical equations of compressible fluid flow
  • 4. The basic variable coefficient estimate
  • 5. The existence and differentiability of solutions
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B