Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I SETTING THE SCENE
- PART II FORMATION OF SINGULARITIES
- PART III PERSISTENT SINGULARITIES: PROPAGATION
- 11 Shock waves
- 12 The dynamical system
- 13 Vortices
- 14 Cusps and caustics
- 15 Contact lines and cracks
- Appendix A Vector calculus
- Appendix B Index notation and the summation convention
- Appendix C Dimensional analysis
- References
- Index
11 - Shock waves
from PART III - PERSISTENT SINGULARITIES: PROPAGATION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I SETTING THE SCENE
- PART II FORMATION OF SINGULARITIES
- PART III PERSISTENT SINGULARITIES: PROPAGATION
- 11 Shock waves
- 12 The dynamical system
- 13 Vortices
- 14 Cusps and caustics
- 15 Contact lines and cracks
- Appendix A Vector calculus
- Appendix B Index notation and the summation convention
- Appendix C Dimensional analysis
- References
- Index
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- Singularities: Formation, Structure, and Propagation , pp. 259 - 297Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015