Shock waves and the Boltzmann equation

DOI10.1090/CONM/017/706084zbMath0523.76064OpenAlexW4233198578MaRDI QIDQ3674269

Basil Nicolaenko, Russel E. Caflisch

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Nonlinear partial differential equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/017/706084

zbMATH Keywords

entropy inequalityprojection methodLyapunov-Schmidt methodconservation propertiesH-theoremweak shocksstrong shocksshock stabilityshock profile solutionsspatial decay rateRankine- Hugoniot jump conditionsshock speed-sound speed bifurcation parametertime dependent shocks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40)

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