Symmetries of discontinuous flows and the dual Rankine-Hugoniot conditions in fluid dynamics

Annals of Physics

Volumn 316, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 30-43

  Jahn, Oliver ^a   Sreedhar, V V ^b   Virmani, Amitabh ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid dynamics; Shock conditions; Symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 14244253496     PISSN: 00034916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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