Preface..........................................................................

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1 Ideal Fluids..................................................................
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1.1 Modelling by Eulers Equations........................................
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1.2 Characteristics and Singularities...................................
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1.3 PotentialFlows and(Dynamic)Buoyancy.................................
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1.4 Motionless Fluids and Sound Propagation.............................
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2 Weak Solutions of Conservation Laws...........................................
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2.1 Generalization of what will be called a Solution....................
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2.2 Traffic Flow Example with Loss of Uniqueness........................
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2.3 The Rankine-Hugoniot Condition......................................
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3 Entropy Conditions............................................................
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3.1 EntropyinCaseof IdealFluids.........................................
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3.2 Generalization of the Entropy Condition.............................
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3.3 UniquenessofEntropySolutions........................................
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3.4 TheAnsatzdue toKruzkov..............................................
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4 The Riemann Problem...........................................................
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4.1 Numerical Importance of the Riemann Problem.........................
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4.2 The Riemann Problem in the Case of Linear Systems...................
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5 Real Fluids...................................................................
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5.1 The Navier-Stokes Equations Model...................................
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5.2 Drag Force and the Hagen-Poiseuille Law.............................
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5.3 Stokes Approximation and Artificial Time............................
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5.4 Foundations of the Boundary Layer Theory; Flow Separation...........
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5.5 Stability of Laminar Flows..........................................
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6 Existence Proof for Entropy Solutions by Means of Discretization Procedures...
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6.1 Some Historical Remarks.............................................
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6.2 Reduction to Properties of Operator Sequences.......................
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6.3 ConvergenceTheorems.................................................
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6.4 Example.............................................................
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7 Types of Discretization Principles............................................
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7.1 SomeGeneralRemarks..................................................
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7.2 TheFiniteDifferenceCalculus.........................................
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7.3 The CFL Condition...................................................
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7.4 Lax-RichtmyerTheory.................................................
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7.5 The von Neumann Stability Criterion.................................
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7.6 TheModifiedEquation.................................................
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7.7 Difference Schemes in Conservation Form.............................
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7.8 The Finite Volume Method on Unstructured Grids......................
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Some Extensive Monographs.......................................................
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Index...........................................................................
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