Stability of surfaces of strong discontinuity in gases (Q1354799)

In the paper attention will be concentrated on the problem of the stability of discontinuities, with the exception of the general results, being concerned with gas media and relating to discontinuities on whose surface the normal mass flow is nonzero. Having no way of exploring all the aspects of the problem of the stability of discontinuities in the same detail within the limited context of this paper, the authors hope to demonstrate the most general ideas and approaches which could subsequently be used to investigate the stability of discontinuities in various particular models of continua.