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An explicit covariant approach to the problem of evaluating the reflection and transmission coefficients of the fastest discontinuity wave impacting on a shock wave is carried out and applications to the general and polytropic relativistic fluid are performed.
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Strumia, A. Covariant approach to the interaction of a weak discontinuity with a shock wave. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 31, 68–80 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02849539
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