Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-applied-partial-differential-equations-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2023/2/c/ii/solution

For , translated copies of the preceding pulse have disjoint interiors of support. In the cell , write . The solution is
At use the given initial function. Each fan starts at , and each shock has position . At , the plateau disappears: its left fan catches its right shock at , which is also the starting edge of the next fan. The shocks must henceforth connect two nonconstant fan branches rather than a fan to a zero interval.

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