Energy momentum, wave velocities and characteristic shocks in Euler's variational equations with application to the Born-Infeld theory

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 3468-3478

  Boillat, Guy ^a,b   Ruggeri, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

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EID: 5644248258     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1780611     Document Type: Article

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