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I will not attempt to present all of the details for the case of the Euler equations. In principle we proceed as in the examples already presented, but the details are messier. Instead, I will concentrate on discussing one new feature seen here, contact discontinuities, and see how we can take advantage of the linear degeneracy of one field to simplify the solution process for a general Riemann problem. Full details are available in many sources, for example [11], [77], [97].
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LeVeque, R.J. (1992). The Riemann problem for the Euler equations. In: Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws. Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8629-1_9
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