Asymptotic Methods in Nonlinear Wave Phenomena: In Honor of the 65th Birthday of Antonio Greco; Palermo, Italy, 5-7 June 2006

by Ruggeri, T.; Sammartino, M.

• ISBN13: 9789812707826
• ISBN10: 9812707824
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This book brings together several contribution from leading experts in the field of nonlinear wavepropagation. hi field, which during the last three decades has seen important breakhroughs from the theoretical point of view, has recently acquired increased relevance due to advances in the technology of fluids e.g. at microscale or nanoscale and the recognition of crucial applications to the understanding of biological phenomena.

Table of Contents

The semiconductor steady Boltzmann equation : a variational formulation with an application to mobility	p. 1
Generating multi state cellular automata by using Chua's "Universal Neuron"	p. 12
Isocline curves and variational scalar field	p. 24
Fokker-Planck asymptotics and the ricci flow	p. 35
Exact solutions of a reaction diffusion equation	p. 47
Some applications of linear response theory to media with mechanical relaxation phenomena	p. 58
Reduction of the three-wave resonant interaction to the sixth painleve equation	p. 67
The D'Alembert-Lagrange principle for gradient theories and boundary conditions	p. 79
A model for the evolution of bioenergy in an environmental system	p. 96
Analysis of the Lorenz system and the benard problem with rotation via the canonical reduction method	p. 107
Lie remarkable PDEs	p. 119
On two-pulse and shock evolution in a class of ideally hard elastic materials	p. 132
Flame structure in ordinary and extended thermodynamics	p. 144
The characteristic problem for the Einstein vacuum equations	p. 154
Long time behaviour of three competing species and mutualistic communities	p. 171
Mixture of gases with multi-temperature : Maxwellian iteration	p. 186
Bifurcation analysis of sequence of Magnetic Island equilibria and spontaneous generation of zonal flows	p. 195
On a class of reaction diffusion systems : equivalence transformations and symmetries	p. 207
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