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Supersonic nonlinear gas flow is studied in order to describe galactic spiral density waves. It is shown analytically that ultra harmonic periodic solutions may exist if nonlinear effects are taken into account. The relevance of those solutions to observed data is discussed.
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Liverts, E., Mond, M. (2003). Nonlinear Response of the Interstellar Gas Flow to Galactic Spiral Density Waves. In: Contopoulos, G., Voglis, N. (eds) Galaxies and Chaos. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 626. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45040-5_8
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