Preprint 2003-008

The Riemann Problem for a Class of Resonant Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws

Paola Goatin and Philippe LeFloch

Abstract: We solve the Riemann problem for a class of resonant hyperbolic systems of balance laws. The systems are not strictly hyperbolic and the solutions take their values in a neighborhood of a state where two characteristic speeds coincide. Our construction generalizes the ones given earlier by Isaacson and Temple for scalar equations and for conservative systems. The class of systems under consideration here includes, in particular, a model from continuum physics that describes the evolution of a fluid flow in a nozzle with discontinuous cross-section.



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Paola Goatin, <goatin@cmapx.polytechnique.fr>
Philippe LeFloch, <lefloch@cmapx.polytechnique.fr>
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<goatin@cmapx.polytechnique.fr> January 27 2003.


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