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This chapter constitutes an introduction to the problems that will be studied in the first part of the book as well as a summary of the state of the art regarding this particular theme. The main objective of this part consist of illustrating the difficulties and characteristics of the hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. All of them should be taken into account when designing the numerical methods to solve this kind of problems. In addition, different models of hyperbolic conservation laws will be presented in order to give a rough outline on the broad range of applications in which these equations can be used.
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Vázquez-Cendón, M.E. (2015). Motivation. In: Solving Hyperbolic Equations with Finite Volume Methods. UNITEXT(), vol 90. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14784-0_1
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