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A Limiting “Viscosity” Approach to the Riemann Problem for Materials Exhibiting Change of Phase

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The one-dimensional isothermal motion of a compressible elastic fluid or solid can be described in Lagrangian coordinates by the coupled system

$${u_{1}} + p{\left( w \right)_{x}} = 0,$$
((0.1))
$${w_{1}} - {u_{x}} = 0.$$
((0.2))

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Dedicated to Bernard Coleman on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday

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Slemrod, M. (1991). A Limiting “Viscosity” Approach to the Riemann Problem for Materials Exhibiting Change of Phase. In: Markovitz, H., Mizel, V.J., Owen, D.R. (eds) Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continua. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75975-8_5

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