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Hyperbolic Conservation Laws. Basic Concepts and Examples

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The purpose of this chapter is to present the basic concepts related to hyperbolic conservation laws. We will focus first on one-dimensional problems, and, at the end of the chapter, we will extend these concepts to multidimensional problems.

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Correspondence to M. Elena Vázquez-Cendón .

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Vázquez-Cendón, M.E. (2015). Hyperbolic Conservation Laws. Basic Concepts and Examples. In: Solving Hyperbolic Equations with Finite Volume Methods. UNITEXT(), vol 90. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14784-0_2

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