ISSN:
0749-159X
Schlagwort(e):
Mathematics and Statistics
;
Numerical Methods
Quelle:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Thema:
Mathematik
Notizen:
Classical derivations of the so-called Riemann invariants for hyperbolic partial differential equations have depended upon the strong-solution concept. Thus, invariance may rigorously be guaranteed only in regions of smooth flow. In general, this is as much as can be said. However, by restricting attention to linear hyperbolic systems, it further emerges that the Riemann invariant fully justifies its title. By using distribution-theoretical arguments based on the weak-solution concept. Riemann invariants of a more generalized nature are studied. For a particular weak solution u there exists, among the equivalence class [u] of weak solutions that differ from u at most on a set of measure zero, a weak solution u whose Riemann invariant corresponding to characteristic direction λ is constant on lines C: dx/dt = λ. Moreover, every piecewise-smooth weak solution has Riemann invariants that are continuous across a finite jump discontinuity. This result is used to establish for a certain Riemann problem that the one-sided time derivative at a point of discontinuity exhibits a character usually regarded in the literature as flux splitting. This result sheds light upon the validity of some upstream-biased approximation techniques for the numerical solution of hyperbolic systems.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/num.1690010103
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