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All of the Riemann solutions considered so far have the following property: the solution is constant along all rays of the form x = ξt. Consequently, the solution is a function of x/t alone, and is said to be a “similarity solution” of the PDE.
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LeVeque, R.J. (1992). Rarefaction Waves and Integral Curves. In: Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws. Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8629-1_8
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