GLOBAL INTERACTION OF FIELDS IN A SYSTEM OF CONSERVATION-LAWS

Authors
AYAD S
Citation
S. Ayad, GLOBAL INTERACTION OF FIELDS IN A SYSTEM OF CONSERVATION-LAWS, Communications in partial differential equations, 23(3-4), 1998, pp. 701-725
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics,Mathematics,Mathematics,Mathematics
Journal title
Communications in partial differential equations → ACNP
ISSN journal
03605302
Volume
23
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
701 - 725
Database
ISI
SICI code
0360-5302(1998)23:3-4<701:GIOFIA>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
We define a change of variables that allows us to decouple the charact eristic fields of a n x n system of conservation laws, at least at the speed level. In the 2 x 2 case, our change of variable is equivalent to the classical Riccati equation on a Riemann invariant of a solution .