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The function in example 1, a removable discontinuity. Consider the piecewise function = {< = >. The point = is a removable discontinuity.For this kind of discontinuity: The one-sided limit from the negative direction: = and the one-sided limit from the positive direction: + = + at both exist, are finite, and are equal to = = +.
In magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), shocks and discontinuities are transition layers where properties of a plasma change from one equilibrium state to another. The relation between the plasma properties on both sides of a shock or a discontinuity can be obtained from the conservative form of the MHD equations, assuming conservation of mass, momentum, energy and of .
Let be a real-valued monotone function defined on an interval. Then the set of discontinuities of the first kind is at most countable.. One can prove [5] [3] that all points of discontinuity of a monotone real-valued function defined on an interval are jump discontinuities and hence, by our definition, of the first kind.
The above example simply states that the function takes the value () for all x values larger than a. With this, all the forces acting on a beam can be added, with their respective points of action being the value of a. A particular case is the unit step function,
A holomorphic function's singularity is either not really a singularity at all, i.e. a removable singularity, or one of the following two types: In light of Riemann's theorem, given a non-removable singularity, one might ask whether there exists a natural number m {\displaystyle m} such that lim z → a ( z − a ) m + 1 f ( z ) = 0 ...
Namely the rarefaction wave, the contact discontinuity and the shock discontinuity. If this is solved numerically, one can test against the analytical solution, and get information how well a code captures and resolves shocks and contact discontinuities and reproduce the correct density profile of the rarefaction wave.
These governing equations of the model are often partial differential equations that are difficult to solve directly since it involves the derivative of the function, [13] for example, the wave equation. [2] Discretization methods and numerical methods convert those governing equations in the mathematical models to discrete equations. [2]
The application of MacCormack method to the above equation proceeds in two steps; a predictor step which is followed by a corrector step. Predictor step: In the predictor step, a "provisional" value of u {\displaystyle u} at time level n + 1 {\displaystyle n+1} (denoted by u i p {\displaystyle u_{i}^{p}} ) is estimated as follows