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Multidimensional Conservation Laws: Overview, Problems, and Perspective

Analysis of PDEs 2010-08-11 v1

Abstract

Some of recent important developments are overviewed, several longstanding open problems are discussed, and a perspective is presented for the mathematical theory of multidimensional conservation laws. Some basic features and phenomena of multidimensional hyperbolic conservation laws are revealed, and some samples of multidimensional systems/models and related important problems are presented and analyzed with emphasis on the prototypes that have been solved or may be expected to be solved rigorously at least for some cases. In particular, multidimensional steady supersonic problems and transonic problems, shock reflection-diffraction problems, and related effective nonlinear approaches are analyzed. A theory of divergence-measure vector fields and related analytical frameworks for the analysis of entropy solutions are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1008.1752,
  title  = {Multidimensional Conservation Laws: Overview, Problems, and Perspective},
  author = {Gui-Qiang G. Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.1752},
  year   = {2010}
}

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43 pages, 3 figures

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