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Riemann problem for a class of 2 × 2 hyperbolic conservation laws*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Changjiang Zhu
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430070, P.R. China

Abstract

In this paper we prove the global existence of the solutions of the Riemann problem for a class of 2 × 2 hyperbolic conservation laws, which is neither necessarily strictly hyperbolic nor necessarily genuinely nonlinear.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1996

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