The stability of the shock profiles of the Burgers' equation

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 97-101

  Engelberg, S ^a  

^a JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Burgers' equation; Nonlinear stability; Shock profile

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041544078     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(98)00087-1     Document Type: Article

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