UID:
almahu_9947367836202882
Format:
1 online resource (469 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-78816-3
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9786611788162
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0-08-087208-5
Series Statement:
North-Holland mathematics studies ; 97
Content:
This volume contains 35 of the contributions to the international meeting Wave Phenomena: Modern Theory and Applications, held at the University of Toronto, Canada, at the end of June 1983.
Note:
Papers presented at an international meeting held at the University of Toronto, June 20-24, 1983, under the auspices of the Canadian Applied Mathematics Society.
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Front Cover; Wave Phenomena: Modern Theory and Applications; Copyright Page; LIST OF CONTENTS; Preface; CHAPTER 1. EQUATIONS OF EVOLUTION AND WAVES; CHAPTER 2. RATIONAL FUNCTION FREQUENCY EXTRAPOLATION IN ULTRASONIC TOMOGRAPHY; CHAPTER 3. NONLINEAR TRAVELLING WAVES IN FLUIDS; CHAPTER 4. SECOND ORDER WAVE INTERACTION WITH LARGE STRUCTURES; CHAPTER 5. ACCELERATION WAVES IN ISOTROPIC CONSTRAINED THERMOELASTIC MATERIALS; CHAPTER 6. A LAGRANGIAN VIEW OF WAVE-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION; CHAPTER 7. A THEORY OF DYNAMICAL FERROELECTRICITY
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CHAPTER 8. SOLITARY WAVE SOLUTIONS OF GENERALISED KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATIONSCHAPTER 9. GEOMETRICAL CRYSTAL ACOUSTICS; CHAPTER 10. RIEMANN INVARIANTS; CHAPTER 11. VARIATIONAL FORMULATION OF THE SINGULAR SURFACE PROPAGATION IN NONSIMPLE ELASTIC MATERIALS; CHAPTER 12. FORCED INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS; CHAPTER 13. INHOMOGENEOUS PLANE WAVES IN INCOMPRESSIBLE ELASTIC MATERIALS; CHAPTER 14. CAN ACOUSTIC FOCUSING GENERATE TURBULENT SPOTS?; CHAPTER 15. NONLINEAR WAVES IN THE PELLET FUSION PROCESS; CHAPTER 16. ENTROPY PRINCIPLE, SYMMETRIC HYPERBOLIC SYSTEMS AND SHOCK WAVES
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CHAPTER 17. DIFFERENTIAL AND DISCRETE SPECTRAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR INVERSESCHAPTER 18. WAVEFRONT FIELDS IN THE SCATTERING OF TRANSIENT ELASTIC WAVES BY A SURFACE-BREAKING CRACK; CHAPTER 19. WIENER-HOPF ANALYSIS: AN APPRAISAL AND A NON-STANDARD APPLICATION; CHAPTER 20. STRESS WAVE PROPAGATION IN DISCRETE RANDOM SOLIDS; CHAPTER 21. DO LIOUVILLE'S SOLUTIONS POSSESS TOPOLOGICAL CHARGE?; CHAPTER 22. DISLOCATIONS IN THE DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF CRACKS; CHAPTER 23. A BÄCKLUND TRANSFORMATION FOR A NONLINEAR TELEGRAPH EQUATION; CHAPTER 24. ON LINEAR DISPERSIVE WAVES WITH DISSIPATION
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CHAPTER 25. LIMITING GASDYNAMIC THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONSCHAPTER 26. SCATTERING OF ACOUSTIC WAVES BY IMPEDANCE SURFACES; CHAPTER 27. INTERACTING NONLINEAR WAVES IN A NEURAL CONTINUUM MODEL: ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY AND PATTERN RECOGNITION; CHAPTER 28. SOLITON DYNAMIC STATES IN THE SINE-GORDON SYSTEM; CHAPTER 29. AN ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS OF ACOUSTIC SCATTERING BY NEARLY RIGID OR SOFT TARGETS; CHAPTER 30. SYMMETRY REDUCTION FOR NONLINEAR WAVE EQUATIONS IN RIEMANNIAN AND PSEUDO-RIEMANNIAN SPACES
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CHAPTER 31. INTEGRAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR SOLUTIONS TO SOME DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS THAT ARISE IN WAVE THEORYCHAPTER 32. NONLINEAR WAVE PHENOMENA IN THE BRAIN; CHAPTER 33. SOLITON SOLUTIONS TO ZAKHAROV-SHABAT SYSTEMS BY THE REDUCTION METHOD; CHAPTER 34. MULTIPLE SCATTERING BY SH WAVES BY RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED DISSIMILAR SCATTERERS; CHAPTER 35. AN INTEGRAL EQUATION ARISING IN DIFFRACTION THEORY
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-87586-7
Language:
English
