Fractional-flow tangent construction

ID: fractional-flow-tangent-construction

When a rarefaction wave attaches to a saturation shock, its terminal characteristic speed must match the Rankine-Hugoniot condition speed. This gives a tangent from the initial state to the fractional-flow curve at . It selects the upstream shock saturation; the actual dimensional shock speed still includes total flux divided by porosity.

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