Nonlinear Waves 1: Dynamics and Evolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783540505624)

Since 1972 the Schools on Nonlinear Physics in Gorky have been a meeting place for Soviet scientists working in this field. Instead of producing for the first time English proceedings it has been decided to present a good cross section of nonlinear physics in the USSR. Thus the participants at the last School were invited to provide English reviews and research papers for these two volumes (which in the years to come will be followed by the proceedings of forthcoming schools). The first volume starts with a historical overview of nonlinear dynamics from Poincaré to the present day and touches topics like attractors, nonlinear oscillators and waves, turbulence, pattern formation, and dynamics of structures in nonequilibrium dissipative media. It then deals with structures, bistabilities, instabilities, chaos, dynamics of defects in 1d systems, self-organizations, solitons, spatio-temporal structures and wave collapse in optical systems, lasers, plasmas, reaction-diffusion systems and solids.

Author: Andrei V. Gaponov-Grekhov
ISBN-10: 3540505628
ISBN-13: 9783540505624
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 08/10/1989
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.54d