In this book we consider the nonlinear hyperbolic wave described by the following first-order quasilinear hyperbolic system: where u = (u 1, … , u n )T is the unknown vector function of (t, x), and A(u) is a given n × n matrix with suitably smooth elements a ij (u) (i, j = 1, … , n).
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Tatsien, L., Libin, W. (2009). Preliminaries. In: Global Propagation of Regular Nonlinear Hyperbolic Waves. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 76. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/b78335_2
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