Eyrk Infeld, Eryk Infeld, George Rowlands

Nonlinear Waves, Solitons and Chaos

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of a highly successful book on nonlinear waves, solitons and chaos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780521635578
• ISBN-10: 0521635578
• Artikelnr.: 21582543

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Linear waves and instabilities in infinite media
3. Convective and non-convective instabilities
group velocity in unstable media
4. A first look at surface waves and instabilities
5. Model equations for small amplitude waves and solitons
weakly nonlinear theory
6. Exact methods for fully nonlinear waves and solitons
7. Cartesian solitons in one and two space dimensions
8. Evolution and stability of initially one-dimensional waves and solitons
9. Cylindrical and spherical solitons in plasmas and other media
10. Soliton metamorphosis
11. Non-coherent phenonemena
Appendices
References.