Advances in the theory of shock waves

Author(s)

• Liu, Tai-Ping
• Freistühler, Heinrich
• Szepessy, Anders

Bibliographic Information

Advances in the theory of shock waves

Tai-Ping Liu...[et al.], authors ; Heinrich Freistühler, Anders Szepessy, editors

（Progress in nonlinear differential equations and their applications / editor, Haim Brezis, 47）

Birkhäuser, c2001

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In the field known as "the mathematical theory of shock waves," very exciting and unexpected developments have occurred in the last few years. Joel Smoller and Blake Temple have established classes of shock wave solutions to the Einstein Euler equations of general relativity; indeed, the mathematical and physical con sequences of these examples constitute a whole new area of research. The stability theory of "viscous" shock waves has received a new, geometric perspective due to the work of Kevin Zumbrun and collaborators, which offers a spectral approach to systems. Due to the intersection of point and essential spectrum, such an ap proach had for a long time seemed out of reach. The stability problem for "in viscid" shock waves has been given a novel, clear and concise treatment by Guy Metivier and coworkers through the use of paradifferential calculus. The L 1 semi group theory for systems of conservation laws, itself still a recent development, has been considerably condensed by the introduction of new distance functionals through Tai-Ping Liu and collaborators; these functionals compare solutions to different data by direct reference to their wave structure. The fundamental prop erties of systems with relaxation have found a systematic description through the papers of Wen-An Yong; for shock waves, this means a first general theorem on the existence of corresponding profiles. The five articles of this book reflect the above developments.

Table of Contents

Preface * 'Well-Posedness Theory for a System of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws' / T.-P. LIU * 'Stability of Multidimensional Shocks' / G. METIVIER * 'Shock Wave Solutions of the Einstein Equations: A General Theory with Examples' / J. SMOLLER and B. TEMPLE * 'Basic Aspects of Hyperbolic Relaxation Systems' / W.-A. YONG * 'Multidimensional Stability of Planar Viscous Shock Waves' / K. ZUMBRUN

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Details

• NCID: BA52613243
• ISBN:
  • 9780817641870
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston ; Basel
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 516 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07303999