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NONUNIQUENESS AND SINGULAR RADIAL SOLUTIONS OF SYSTEMS OF CONSERVATION LAWS

  • Michael G. Hilgers
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  • Business and Information Technology Department, Missouri University of S &|T, Missouri 65409, USA

Received date: 2011-11-30

  Online published: 2012-01-20

Abstract

The case of a radial initial state for a family of hyperbolic systems of con-servation laws with several spatial dimensions is considered. It will be shown that the singularity at the origin introduces multiple solutions outside of the traditional admissible classes.

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Michael G. Hilgers . NONUNIQUENESS AND SINGULAR RADIAL SOLUTIONS OF SYSTEMS OF CONSERVATION LAWS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2012 , 32(1) : 367 -379 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(12)60023-X

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