Waves And Stability in Continuous Media: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Wascom 2005

by Monaco, Roberto; Mulone, Giuseppe; Rionero, Salvatore; Ruggeri, Tommaso

• ISBN13: 9789812568045
• ISBN10: 9812568042
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-27
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

On whitham equations for Camassa-Holm	p. 1
Inverse doping problems for semiconductor devices	p. 7
Vanishing viscosity solutions of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with boundary	p. 13
An operatorial description of stock markets	p. 22
Numerical simulation of models for reacting polytropic gases	p. 28
Heat conduction in a non-inertial frame	p. 35
Nonlinear stability of uniform steady states and preservation of sign for a two-dimensional fourth-order reaction diffusion equation	p. 41
The non-relativistic limit of relativistic extended thermodynamics with many moments : part I : the balance equations	p. 47
Hydrodynamic models for a two-band nonzero-temperature quantum fluid	p. 53
Vortex layers in the small viscosity limit	p. 59
Mathematical study of the small oscillations of a pendulum filled by an inviscid, incompressible, almost homogeneous liquid	p. 71
Influence of linear concentration heat source and parabolic density on penetrative convection onset	p. 77
On penetrative convection in porous media driven by quadratic sources	p. 83
Non-linear Schrodinger equation in a two-fluid plasma	p. 89
The non-relativistic limit of relativistic extended thermodynamics with many moments : part II : how it includes the mass, momentum and energy conservation	p. 95
Existence and energy conservation for the Boltzmann equation	p. 101
From the big bang to future complete cosmologies	p. 110
First order weak nonlocality in extended thermodynamics of rigid heat conductors	p. 122
A semigroup of solutions for the Degasperis-Procesi equation	p. 128
Numerical simulation of magnetically deflected transferred arc	p. 134
A note on balance laws for slow and fast chemical reactions	p. 140
Integration of partially integrable equations	p. 146
On the stability and asymptotic stability of steady solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in unbounded domains	p. 158
Reflection and transmission of acceleration waves in isotropic solids when a strong discontinuity occurs	p. 164
Instability of a pre-stressed solid-fluid mixture	p. 170
Some further considerations on the Galilean relativity principle in extended thermodynamics	p. 176
Waves and vibrations in a solid of second grade	p. 182
About the large time behavior of dissipative equations when a priori bounds are slowly growing	p. 193
Deformation waves in microstructured solids and dispersion	p. 204
An allelopathic competition with an external toxicant input	p. 210
Stability and other considerations for a nonlinear diffusion system	p. 220
Generalized rarefaction waves and Riemann problem for a class of dissipative hyperbolic models	p. 232
An equilibrium point regularization for the Chen system	p. 244
Nonclassical symmetry reductions of the Calogero-Degasperis-Fokas equation in (2+1) dimensions	p. 250
A linear instability analysis of the Benard problem for deep convection	p. 256
Multicomponent reactive flows	p. 262
Non-linear waves in fluids near the critical point	p. 274
On Euler closures for reactive Boltzmann equations	p. 286
On the geomagnetic direction problem : a nonexistence result	p. 292
On the models of nonlocal nonlinear optics	p. 298
Closure of the balance laws for gaseous mixtures near chemical equilibrium	p. 304
Caothic patterns in Lotka-Volterra systems with behavioral adaptation	p. 310
An Euler-Poisson model based on MEP for holes in semiconductors	p. 316
A hydrodynamical model for silicon bipolar devices	p. 322
Analysis of a mathematical model for the interaction between algae and light	p. 328
Singularities for Prandtl's equations	p. 334
Nonlocal boundary conditions for the Navier-Stokes equations	p. 340
On the Shizuta-Kawashima coupling condition for dissipative hyperbolic systems and acceleration waves	p. 346
Pointwise stability of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations	p. 356
Bifurcation analysis for symmetric equilibria with localised magnetic shear in 2D RRMHD	p. 365
Simulations at kinetic scale of relaxation models for slow and fast chemical reactions	p. 378
An operative method to define generalized-energy functionals in PDEs and in convection problems	p. 390
On the existence of high energy tails for the Boltzmann transport equation in semiconductors	p. 402
Stability of solitons of the Zakharov-Rubenchik equation	p. 408
Global solutions of Boltzmann-type equations with three-body chemical interactions	p. 414
On an inverse problem in group analysis of PDE's : Lie-remarkable equations	p. 420
On the stability of the magnetic anisotropic Benard problem with Hall and ion-slip currents	p. 432
Higher-order shallow water equations, explicit solutions and the Camassa-Holm equation	p. 438
The Galilean relativity principle as non-relativistic limit of Einstein's one in extended thermodynamics	p. 448
Equivalence of two known approaches to extended thermodynamics with 13 moments	p. 455
Functionals for the coincidence between linear and nonlinear stability with applications to spatial ecology and double diffusive convection	p. 461
Symmetry analysis for the quantum drift-diffusion model of semiconductors	p. 475
Symmetries and reduction techniques for a dissipative model	p. 481
Symmetry analysis and linearization of the (2+1) dimensional Burgers equation	p. 493
Transfer properties of elastic materials with thin layers	p. 505
Wave propagation phenomena in solids near the melting point	p. 512
Plain waves and vibrations in the elastic mixtures	p. 524
Maximum entropy principle for hydrodynamic analysis of the fluctuations of moments for the hot carriers in semiconductors	p. 530
Soliton excitations in an inhomogeneous DNA molecular chain	p. 536
Stability of structured prey-predator model	p. 542
Decay estimates in chemotaxis : aggregation of Gila and a possible application to Alzheimer's disease senile plaques	p. 548
Extended thermodynamics with consistent order	p. 553
One-dimensional stationary heat conduction in a rarefied gas at rest analyzed by consistent-order extended thermodynamics	p. 559
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