Research Catalog

Title

Nonlinear waves, solitons, and chaos / Eryk Infeld, George Rowlands.

Author

Infeld, E. (Eryk)

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rowlands, G. (George)

Description

xiii, 391 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Solitons
• Chaotic behavior in systems
• Nonlinear waves

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-377) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 phenomena -- A1. Parameter stretching as suggested by the linear dispersion relations -- A2. Relation between the trace method and the inverse scattering method -- A3. Some formulae for perturbed nonlinear ion acoustic waves and solitons -- A4. Colliding soliton theory -- A5. A model equation for spherical solitons -- A6. Stability calculation for 2D KPI soliton in 3D.

ISBN

• 0521632129 (hb)
• 0521635578

LCCN

^^^99045441^

OCLC

• 42296463
• SCSB-10291272

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