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STRONG SHOCKS IN NONISENTROPIC GAS DYNAMICS

  • Constantine M. Dafermos
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  • Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA

Received date: 2009-01-08

  Online published: 2009-07-20

Abstract

In nonisentropic gas dynamics, with general equations of state, strong com-pressive shocks satisfying the Liu E-condition may violate the Second Law of thermody-namics.

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Constantine M. Dafermos . STRONG SHOCKS IN NONISENTROPIC GAS DYNAMICS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2009 , 29(4) : 973 -979 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(09)60081-3

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