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University of Leipzig
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Mathematical Institute

Graduate College- Analysis, Geometry and their Interaction with the Natural Sciences

Minicourse

Shock Waves and Moving Phase Boundaries

Heinrich Freistühler

(MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig/ RWTH Aachen)

Schedule:

All lectures will take place at 8.15 - 9.45 h. in lecture room 6, Augustusplatz 10/11.

Abstract:

This introductory short course presents aspects of the stability theory of discontinuity fronts in systems of conservation laws, notably of its applications to the Euler equations for one-phase fluids (classical shock waves), the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (intermediate shock waves), and the Euler equations of two-phase fluids (moving phase boundaries). The results presented are due to A. Majda, G. Metivier, S. Benzoni-Gavage, and others (including the speaker)