Shock reflection for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws (Q860723)

The authors consider the quasilinear strictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws in \(\mathbb R^1\): \[ u_t + (f(u))_x = 0 \] with initial condition and nonlinear boundary condition from the point of view of the reflection of shock waves. It is shown that the system has a unique global piecewise \(C^1\) solution containing only shock waves with small amplitude. The structure of the solution is compared to that of the corresponding Riemann problem.