Shock profile solutions of the Boltzmann equation

DOI10.1007/BF01206009zbMath0544.76063MaRDI QIDQ797416

Russel E. Caflisch, Basil Nicolaenko

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationLyapunov-Schmidt methodshock profileEuler Navier-Stokes, or Boltzmann equationsTaylor \(\tan \,h(x)\) profiletruncated expansion in powers of the shock strength

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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