Covariant approach to the interaction of a weak discontinuity with a shock wave (Q1062558)
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Covariant approach to the interaction of a weak discontinuity with a shock wave (English)
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1982
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An explicit covariant approach to the problem of evaluating the reflection and transmission coefficients of the fastest discontinuity wave impacting on a shock wave is carried out and applications to the general and polytropic relativistic fluid are performed.
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hyperbolic system of first order differential equations
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pseudo- Riemannian metric
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evolutive Lax condition
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Rankine-Hugoniot equation
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explicit covariant approach
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reflection and transmission coefficients
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discontinuity wave
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shock wave
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general and polytropic relativistic fluid
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