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Smoothness of the solution.

  If we start again with a jump singularity, in which the left half of the pipe is hotter than the right half, the hot and cold fluid simply flow through the pipe and the jump remains, as shown in figure 6. Hyperbolic equations such as this do not diffuse the singularities away.


  
Figure 6: Convection of a singularity.
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