Download or read book Hyperbolic Conservation Laws in Continuum Physics written by Constantine M. Dafermos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lucid and authoritative exposition of the mathematical theory of hyperbolic system laws. The second edition contains a new chapter recounting exciting recent developments on the vanishing viscosity method. Numerous new sections introduce newly derived results. From the reviews: "The author is known as one of the leading experts in the field. His masterly written book is, surely, the most complete exposition in the subject of conservations laws." --Zentralblatt MATH