Admissible Wave Fans and the Riemann Problem
摘要
The property of systems of conservation laws to be invariant under uniform stretching of the space-time coordinates induces the existence of self-similar solutions, which stay constant along straight-line rays emanating from some focal point in space-time. Such solutions depict a collection of waves converging to the focal point and interacting there to produce a jump discontinuity which is in turn resolved into an outgoing wave fan.