Contact discontinuity with general perturbations for gas motions

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 219, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1246-1297

  Huang, Feimin ^a   Xin, Zhouping ^b   Yang, Tong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Compressible Navier Stokes equations; Contact discontinuity; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 51349111167     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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