Research Catalog

Title

Waves in astrophysics / edited by J.H. Hunter, Jr. and R.E. Wilson.

Publication

New York : The New York Academy of Sciences, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Hunter, J. H. (James H.)
• Wilson, R. E. (Robert E.), 1937-
• Florida Workshop in Nonlinear Astronomy (10th : 1994 : Gainesville, Fla.)

Description

vii, 344 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 773

Uniform Title

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 773.

Subjects

• Astrophysics > Congresses
• Stellar oscillations > Congresses
• Magnetohydrodynamic waves > Congresses

Note

• "The papers in this volume were presented at the Tenth Florida Workshop in Nonlinear Astronomy... which was held on September 22-24, 1994, in Gainesville, Florida"--P. [vi].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / J. H. Hunter and R. E. Wilson -- Chaos in Observational of Variables Stars - Irregularity from the Nonlinear Interaction of Standing Waves? / J. Robert Buchler, Z. Kollath and Thierry Serres -- Unstable Long Wavelength Magnetohydrodynamic Waves on Highly Collimated Outflows / Philip E. Hardee -- Interface Instabilities in the Interstellar Medium / J. H. Hunter, Jr., R. W. Whitaker, R. V. E. Lovelace and C. Siopis -- Alfven Waves and Interstellar Turbulence / S. Sridhar -- Sinuous Modes and Steady Warps of Polytropic Discs / N. J. Balmforth and E. A. Spiegel -- Linear and Nonlinear Waves in Shock-Bounded Slabs / Ethan T. Vishniac -- Normal Modes and Continuous Spectra / N. J. Balmforth and P. J. Morrison -- Vorticity and Mixing in Disks / Philip Yecko -- Bending Waves in Flattened Stellar Systems / C. Hunter -- On Global Wave Patterns in Galaxies: Their Generation and Maintenance / C. C. Lin and G. Bertin --
• Invariant Spectra of Dynamical Systems / G. Contopoulos, N. Voglis, C. Efthymiopoulos and E. Grousouzakou -- Chaos and Order in Time-Periodic Potentials and the Problem of Structural Stability / Henry E. Kandrup, Robert A. Abernathy, M. Elaine Mahon and Brendan O. Bradley -- Spectra and Lyapunov Numbers in Pulsating Systems / Haywood Smith, Jr. and George Contopoulos -- Arnold Diffusion and Equipartition in an Oscillator Chain / Allan J. Lichtenberg -- Universal Properties of Escape / Christos V. Siopis, Henry E. Kandrup, G. Contopoulos and Rudolf Dvorak -- Counterrotating Bars / Chad L. Davies and James H. Hunter, Jr. -- Shadowing and Noise in Nonhyperbolic Systems / David E. Willmes -- Low-Frequency Modes of Pulsation of Relativistic Accretion Disks / James R. Ipser -- Density Waves and Warps Generated by Tidal Perturbation of a Gaseous Disk / J. C. B. Papaloizou, D. G. Korycansky and C. Terquem --
• Nonlinear Waves in Magnetized Accretion Disks / R. V. E. Lovelace and M. M. Romanova -- Structural Stability and [gamma]-Transitions / Dimitris M. Christodoulou, Demosthenes Kazanas, Isaac Shlosman and Joel E. Tohline -- Some New Understandings on Nonlinear Stellar Pulsation / Yanqin Wu -- Tital Perturbations, Gravitational Amplification, and Galaxy Spiral Arms / Gene Byrd -- Gaseous Vortices in Barred Spiral Galaxies / Martin N. England and James H. Hunter, Jr. -- The Pattern Speed of the Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1398 / E. M. Moore and S. T. Gottesman.

ISBN

• 0897669576 (cloth :alk. paper)
• 0897669584 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95048345

OCLC

• 223995452
• ocn223995452

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries