On symmetrizing hyperbolic differential equations. (English) Zbl 0641.35040

Lax, Peter D.

Nonlinear hyperbolic problems, Proc. Adv. Res. Workshop, St. Etienne/France 1986, Lect. Notes Math. 1270, 150-151 (1987).

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0623.00008.]
This is a survey on the papers by A. Harten and the author [SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 18, 289-315 (1981; Zbl 0467.65038)] and by the author [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 11, 175-194 (1958; Zbl 0086.016), and Contrib. Nonlin. Functional Analysis, Proc. Sympos. Univ. Wisconsin, Madison 1971, 603-634 (1971; Zbl 0268.35014)].

MSC:

35L60	First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations
35A30	Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs
35L40	First-order hyperbolic systems
35Q99	Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

Keywords:

compressible gas dynamics; symmetric; conservation form; survey

Citations:

Zbl 0623.00008; Zbl 0467.65038; Zbl 0086.016; Zbl 0268.35014