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There is a widespread belief that dissipation “smoothes out” discontinuities. The source of this belief seems to lie in a fact about linearly viscious fluids. Indeed, consider the Navier-Stokes formula (23.17), viz
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Truesdell, C. (1966). Wave Propagation in Dissipative Materials. In: The Elements of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-64976-9_28
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