Shock Induced Transitions and Phase Structures in General Media

Shock Induced Transitions and Phase Structures in General Media
Author: J.E. Dunn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 146138348X

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications SHOCK INDUCED TRANSITIONS AND PHASE STRUCTURES IN GENERAL MEDIA is based on the proceedings of a workshop that was an integral part of the 1990-91 IMA program on "Phase Transitions and Free Boundaries." The workshop focused on the thermodynamics and mechanics of dynamic phase transitions that are mainly inertially driven and brought together physicists, metallurgists, mathematicians, engineers, and molecular dynamicists with interests in these problems. Financial support of the National Science Foundation made the meeting pos sible. We are grateful to J .E. Dunn, Roger Fosdick, and Marshall Slemrod for organizing the meeting and editing the proceedings. A vner Friedman Willard Miller, .Jr. PREFACE When a body is subjected to a strong shock the material may suffer severe local structural changes. Rapid solidification, liquification, or vaporization can oc cur, and, moreover, complex structural heterogeneity is often left in the wake of the passing wave. Thus, inertially driven shock waves raise fundamental questions involving experiment, theory, and mathematics which bear on phase stability and metastability, as well as on reaction kinetics and appropriate measures of phase structure.

Multi-dimensional Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations

Multi-dimensional Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
Author: Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2007
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 019921123X

Authored by leading scholars, this comprehensive text presents a view of the multi-dimensional hyperbolic partial differential equations, with a particular emphasis on problems in which modern tools of analysis have proved useful. It is useful to graduates and researchers in both hyperbolic PDEs and compressible fluid dynamics.

Non-Smooth Thermomechanics

Non-Smooth Thermomechanics
Author: Michel Fremond
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662048000

Based on practical problems in mechanical engineering, here the author develops the fundamental concepts of non-smooth mechanics and introduces the necessary background material needed to deal with mechanics involving discontinuities and non-smooth constraints.

Recent Advances In Elasticity, Viscoelasticity And Inelasticity

Recent Advances In Elasticity, Viscoelasticity And Inelasticity
Author: Kumbakonam R Rajagopal
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1995-02-20
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814501050

This is a collection of papers dedicated to Prof T C Woo to mark his 70th birthday. The papers focus on recent advances in elasticity, viscoelasticity and inelasticity, which are related to Prof Woo's work. Prof Woo's recent work concentrates on the viscoelastic and viscoplastic response of metals and plastics when thermal effects are significant, and the papers here address open questions in these and related areas.

An Introduction to Recent Developments in Theory and Numerics for Conservation Laws

An Introduction to Recent Developments in Theory and Numerics for Conservation Laws
Author: Dietmar Kröner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642585353

The book concerns theoretical and numerical aspects of systems of conservation laws, which can be considered as a mathematical model for the flows of inviscid compressible fluids. Five leading specialists in this area give an overview of the recent results, which include: kinetic methods, non-classical shock waves, viscosity and relaxation methods, a-posteriori error estimates, numerical schemes of higher order on unstructured grids in 3-D, preconditioning and symmetrization of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. This book will prove to be very useful for scientists working in mathematics, computational fluid mechanics, aerodynamics and astrophysics, as well as for graduate students, who want to learn about new developments in this area.

Advances in the Theory of Shock Waves

Advances in the Theory of Shock Waves
Author: Heinrich Freistühler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461201934

In the field known as "the mathematical theory of shock waves," very exciting and unexpected developments have occurred in the last few years. Joel Smoller and Blake Temple have established classes of shock wave solutions to the Einstein Euler equations of general relativity; indeed, the mathematical and physical con sequences of these examples constitute a whole new area of research. The stability theory of "viscous" shock waves has received a new, geometric perspective due to the work of Kevin Zumbrun and collaborators, which offers a spectral approach to systems. Due to the intersection of point and essential spectrum, such an ap proach had for a long time seemed out of reach. The stability problem for "in viscid" shock waves has been given a novel, clear and concise treatment by Guy Metivier and coworkers through the use of paradifferential calculus. The L 1 semi group theory for systems of conservation laws, itself still a recent development, has been considerably condensed by the introduction of new distance functionals through Tai-Ping Liu and collaborators; these functionals compare solutions to different data by direct reference to their wave structure. The fundamental prop erties of systems with relaxation have found a systematic description through the papers of Wen-An Yong; for shock waves, this means a first general theorem on the existence of corresponding profiles. The five articles of this book reflect the above developments.

Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics

Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics
Author: S. Friedlander
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 702
Release: 2004-11-20
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780444515568

The Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics is a compendium of essays that provides a survey of the major topics in the subject. Each article traces developments, surveys the results of the past decade, discusses the current state of knowledge and presents major future directions and open problems. Extensive bibliographic material is provided. The book is intended to be useful both to experts in the field and to mathematicians and other scientists who wish to learn about or begin research in mathematical fluid dynamics. The Handbook illuminates an exciting subject that involves rigorous mathematical theory applied to an important physical problem, namely the motion of fluids.

Analytical Approaches to Multidimensional Balance Laws

Analytical Approaches to Multidimensional Balance Laws
Author: Olga S. Rozanova
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781594543074

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of mathematical investigation of balance laws. They arise in many areas of physics, mechanics, chemistry, biology, social sciences. In this collective book we concentrate in particular on the equations of continuous medium and related to them. As a rule, they are very complicated in their primitive form. An important feature of such equations is a possible formation of singularities even in initially smooth solution within a finite time. The structure of the singularities can be very complex. A natural step in the approach to this problem is the transition, despite the three-dimensionality of our world, to spatially one-dimensional model. Significant progress has been achieved in this direction. Unfortunately, the methods of the one-dimensional theory, as usual, cannot be adapted to a case of many spatial variables. However, there are many attempts to deal with multidimensional problems. We would like to present some of them. All of the papers are written by outstanding experts, representing various schools in mathematics and mechanics. Each paper is organised as follows: it contains an elementary (as far as it is possible) introduction to a problem, a brief review of previously published results, and then original results of the authors are presented.

The Selected Works of Roderick S C Wong

The Selected Works of Roderick S C Wong
Author: Dan Dai
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 1557
Release: 2015-08-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814656062

This collection, in three volumes, presents the scientific achievements of Roderick S C Wong, spanning 45 years of his career. It provides a comprehensive overview of the author's work which includes significant discoveries and pioneering contributions, such as his deep analysis on asymptotic approximations of integrals and uniform asymptotic expansions of orthogonal polynomials and special functions; his important contributions to perturbation methods for ordinary differential equations and difference equations; and his advocation of the Riemann–Hilbert approach for global asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials. The book is an essential source of reference for mathematicians, statisticians, engineers, and physicists. It is also a suitable reading for graduate students and interested senior year undergraduate students. Contents:Volume 1:The Asymptotic Behaviour of μ(z, β,α)A Generalization of Watson's LemmaLinear Equations in Infinite MatricesAsymptotic Solutions of Linear Volterra Integral Equations with Singular KernelsOn Infinite Systems of Linear Differential EquationsError Bounds for Asymptotic Expansions of HankelExplicit Error Terms for Asymptotic Expansions of StieltjesExplicit Error Terms for Asymptotic Expansions of MellinAsymptotic Expansion of Multiple Fourier TransformsExact Remainders for Asymptotic Expansions of FractionalAsymptotic Expansion of the Hilbert TransformError Bounds for Asymptotic Expansions of IntegralsDistributional Derivation of an Asymptotic ExpansionOn a Method of Asymptotic Evaluation of Multiple IntegralsAsymptotic Expansion of the Lebesgue Constants Associated with Polynomial InterpolationQuadrature Formulas for Oscillatory Integral TransformsGeneralized Mellin Convolutions and Their Asymptotic Expansions,A Uniform Asymptotic Expansion of the Jacobi Polynomials with Error BoundsAsymptotic Expansion of a Multiple IntegralAsymptotic Expansion of a Double Integral with a Curve of Stationary PointsSzegö's Conjecture on Lebesgue Constants for Legendre SeriesUniform Asymptotic Expansions of Laguerre PolynomialsTransformation to Canonical Form for Uniform Asymptotic ExpansionsMultidimensional Stationary Phase Approximation: Boundary Stationary PointTwo-Dimensional Stationary Phase Approximation: Stationary Point at a CornerAsymptotic Expansions for Second-Order Linear Difference EquationsAsymptotic Expansions for Second-Order Linear Difference Equations, IIAsymptotic Behaviour of the Fundamental Solution to ∂u/∂t = –(–Δ)muA Bernstein-Type Inequality for the Jacobi PolynomialError Bounds for Asymptotic Expansions of Laplace ConvolutionsVolume 2:Asymptotic Behavior of the Pollaczek Polynomials and Their ZerosJustification of the Stationary Phase Approximation in Time-Domain AsymptoticsAsymptotic Expansions of the Generalized Bessel PolynomialsUniform Asymptotic Expansions for Meixner Polynomials"Best Possible" Upper and Lower Bounds for the Zeros of the Bessel Function Jν(x)Justification of a Perturbation Approximation of the Klein–Gordon EquationSmoothing of Stokes's Discontinuity for the Generalized Bessel Function. IIUniform Asymptotic Expansions of a Double Integral: Coalescence of Two Stationary PointsUniform Asymptotic Formula for Orthogonal Polynomials with Exponential WeightOn the Asymptotics of the Meixner–Pollaczek Polynomials and Their ZerosGevrey Asymptotics and Stieltjes Transforms of Algebraically Decaying FunctionsExponential Asymptotics of the Mittag–Leffler FunctionOn the Ackerberg–O'Malley ResonanceAsymptotic Expansions for Second-Order Linear Difference Equations with a Turning PointOn a Two-Point Boundary-Value Problem with Spurious SolutionsShooting Method for Nonlinear Singularly Perturbed Boundary-Value ProblemsVolume 3:Asymptotic Expansion of the Krawtchouk Polynomials and Their ZerosOn a Uniform Treatment of Darboux's MethodLinear Difference Equations with Transition PointsUniform Asymptotics for Jacobi Polynomials with Varying Large Negative Parameters — A Riemann–Hilbert ApproachUniform Asymptotics of the Stieltjes–Wigert Polynomials via the Riemann–Hilbert ApproachA Singularly Perturbed Boundary-Value Problem Arising in Phase TransitionsOn the Number of Solutions to Carrier's ProblemAsymptotic Expansions for Riemann–Hilbert ProblemsOn the Connection Formulas of the Third Painlevé TranscendentHyperasymptotic Expansions of the Modified Bessel Function of the Third Kind of Purely Imaginary OrderGlobal Asymptotics for Polynomials Orthogonal with Exponential Quartic WeightThe Riemann–Hilbert Approach to Global Asymptotics of Discrete Orthogonal Polynomials with Infinite NodesGlobal Asymptotics of the Meixner PolynomialsAsymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials via Recurrence RelationsUniform Asymptotic Expansions for the Discrete Chebyshev PolynomialsGlobal Asymptotics of the Hahn PolynomialsGlobal Asymptotics of Stieltjes–Wigert Polynomials Readership: Undergraduates, gradudates and researchers in the areas of asymptotic approximations of integrals, singular perturbation theory, difference equations and Riemann–Hilbert approach. Key Features:This book provides a broader viewpoint of asymptoticsIt contains about half of the papers that Roderick Wong has written on asymptoticsIt demonstrates how analysis is used to make some formal results mathematically rigorousThis collection presents the scientific achievements of the authorKeywords:Asymptotic Analysis;Perturbation Method;Special Functions;Orthogonal Polynomials;Integral Transforms;Integral Equations;Ordinary Differential Equations;Difference Equations;Riemann–Hilbert Problem

Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws

Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws
Author: Philippe G. LeFloch
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3034881509

This book examines the well-posedness theory for nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, recently completed by the author together with his collaborators. It covers the existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence of classical entropy solutions. It also introduces the reader to the developing theory of nonclassical (undercompressive) entropy solutions. The systems of partial differential equations under consideration arise in many areas of continuum physics.