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Description of the problem

This time, I tried to solve a different kind of problem: a problem which includes discontinuous initial data. Consider the first order wave equation :

where a is the speed of the shock and the exact solution is .

The objective is to investigate the capability of the X-FEM for this kind of problem.



Renaud Merle 2000-08-26