Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology

Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology
Author: K.H. Spatschek
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1489913432

This volume contains the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) and Emil-Warburg-Symposium (EWS) "Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Phy sics and Biology" held at the University of Bayreuth from June 1 -4, 1993. Director of the ARW was K. H. Spatschek, while F.G. Mertens acted as the co-director, host, and organizer of the EWS. The other members of the scientific organizing committee were A.R. Bishop (Los Alamos), J.C. Eilbeck (Edinburgh), and M. Remoissenet (Dijon). This was the eighth meeting in a series of interdisciplinary workshops founded by our French colleagues who had organized all the previous workshops, e.g. 1989 in Montpel lier and 1991 in Dijon. We were asked to organize the meeting this time in Germany. Of course, we wanted to keep the character defined by the previous meetings, which were always characterized by an open and friendly atmosphere, being not too large in quantity, but high in quality. This time altogether 103 participants attended the workshop. During the past years most of the participants met several times and discussed problems connected with the generation of nonlinear coherent structures in physics and biology.

Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology

Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology
Author: M. Remoissenet
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1991
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Nature provides many examples of coherent nonlinear structures and waves, and these have been observed and studied in various fields ranging from fluids and plasmas through solid-state physics to chemistry and biology. These proceedings reflect the remarkable process in understanding and modeling nonlinear phenomena in various systems that has recently been made.Experimental, numerical, and theoretical activities interact in various studies that are presented according to the following classification: magnetic and optical systems, biosystems and molecular systems, lattice excitations and localized modes, two-dimensional structures, theoretical physics, and mathematical methods. The book addresses researchers and graduate students from biology, engineering, mathematics, and physics.

Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology

Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology
Author: M. Remoissenet
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1991
Genre: Biomedical engineering
ISBN:

Nature provides many examples of coherent nonlinear structures and waves, and these have been observed and studied in various fields ranging from fluids and plasmas through solid-state physics to chemistry and biology. These proceedings reflect the remarkable process in understanding and modeling nonlinear phenomena in various systems that has recently been made.Experimental, numerical, and theoretical activities interact in various studies that are presented according to the following classification: magnetic and optical systems, biosystems and molecular systems, lattice excitations and localized modes, two-dimensional structures, theoretical physics, and mathematical methods. The book addresses researchers and graduate students from biology, engineering, mathematics, and physics.

Nonlinear Science

Nonlinear Science
Author: Alwyn Scott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1999
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

Problems and summaries after each chapter

2D-Gravity in Non-Critical Strings

2D-Gravity in Non-Critical Strings
Author: E. Abdalla
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 325
Release: 1994-04-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540578056

This book contains a survey of the use of the Liouville (and super-Liouville) equation in (super)string theory outside the critical dimension, and of the complementary approach based on the discretized space-time, known as the matrix model approach. Supersymmetry is given particular attention, both in the continuum formulation, by means of the Liouville equation, and through the consideration of the super-eigenvalue problem. The methods presented here are important in a large number of complex problems, e.g. random surfaces, 2-D gravity and large-N quantum chromodynamics. The comparison of different methods in the study of such problems permits a cross-evaluation of the results when both methods are applicable and new predictions when only one of the methods may be used.

Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics V

Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics V
Author: K. W. Morton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 650
Release: 1995
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780198514800

This book contains the proceedings of an international conference on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics held at the University of Oxford in April 1995. It provides a summary of recent research on the computational aspects of fluid dynamics. It includes contributions from many distinguished mathematicians and engineers and, as always, the standard of papers is high. The main themes of the book are algorithms and algorithmic needs arising from applications, Navier-Stokes on flexible grids, and environmental computational fluid dynamics. Graduate students of numerical analysis will find the up-to-date coverage of research in this book very useful.

High Temperature Plasmas

High Temperature Plasmas
Author: Karl-Heinz Spatschek
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2013-11-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 352763813X

Filling the gap for a treatment of the subject as an advanced course in theoretical physics with a huge potential for future applications, this monograph discusses aspects of these applications and provides theoretical methods and tools for their investigation. Throughout this coherent and up-to-date work the main emphasis is on classical plasmas at high-temperatures, drawing on the experienced author's specialist background. As such, it covers the key areas of magnetic fusion plasma, laser-plasma-interaction and astrophysical plasmas, while also including nonlinear waves and phenomena. For master and PhD students as well as researchers interested in the theoretical foundations of plasma models.

Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Systems

Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Systems
Author: Lokenath Debnath
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 683
Release: 1992-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9814554960

This book brings together a comprehensive account of major developments in the theory and applications of nonlinear dispersive waves, nonlinear water waves, KdV and nonlinear Schrodinger equations, Davey-Stewartson equation, Benjamin-Ono equation and nonlinear instability phenomena. In order to give the book a wider readership, chapters have been written by internationally known researchers who have made significant contributions to nonlinear waves and nonlinear instability. This volume will be invaluable to applied mathematicians, physicists, geophysicists, oceanographers, engineering scientists, and to anyone interested in nonlinear dynamics.