Traveling Wave Solutions of Parabolic Systems

Traveling Wave Solutions of Parabolic Systems
Author: A. I. Volpert
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 474
Release:
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821897577

The theory of travelling waves described by parabolic equations and systems is a rapidly developing branch of modern mathematics. This book presents a general picture of current results about wave solutions of parabolic systems, their existence, stability, and bifurcations. With introductory material accessible to non-mathematicians and a nearly complete bibliography of about 500 references, this book is an excellent resource on the subject.

Parabolic Equations in Biology

Parabolic Equations in Biology
Author: Benoît Perthame
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2015-09-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 331919500X

This book presents several fundamental questions in mathematical biology such as Turing instability, pattern formation, reaction-diffusion systems, invasion waves and Fokker-Planck equations. These are classical modeling tools for mathematical biology with applications to ecology and population dynamics, the neurosciences, enzymatic reactions, chemotaxis, invasion waves etc. The book presents these aspects from a mathematical perspective, with the aim of identifying those qualitative properties of the models that are relevant for biological applications. To do so, it uncovers the mechanisms at work behind Turing instability, pattern formation and invasion waves. This involves several mathematical tools, such as stability and instability analysis, blow-up in finite time, asymptotic methods and relative entropy properties. Given the content presented, the book is well suited as a textbook for master-level coursework.

Traveling Wave Analysis of Partial Differential Equations

Traveling Wave Analysis of Partial Differential Equations
Author: Graham Griffiths
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2010-12-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0123846536

Although the Partial Differential Equations (PDE) models that are now studied are usually beyond traditional mathematical analysis, the numerical methods that are being developed and used require testing and validation. This is often done with PDEs that have known, exact, analytical solutions. The development of analytical solutions is also an active area of research, with many advances being reported recently, particularly traveling wave solutions for nonlinear evolutionary PDEs. Thus, the current development of analytical solutions directly supports the development of numerical methods by providing a spectrum of test problems that can be used to evaluate numerical methods. This book surveys some of these new developments in analytical and numerical methods, and relates the two through a series of PDE examples. The PDEs that have been selected are largely "named'' since they carry the names of their original contributors. These names usually signify that the PDEs are widely recognized and used in many application areas. The authors' intention is to provide a set of numerical and analytical methods based on the concept of a traveling wave, with a central feature of conversion of the PDEs to ODEs. The Matlab and Maple software will be available for download from this website shortly. www.pdecomp.net - Includes a spectrum of applications in science, engineering, applied mathematics - Presents a combination of numerical and analytical methods - Provides transportable computer codes in Matlab and Maple

Newton Methods for Nonlinear Problems

Newton Methods for Nonlinear Problems
Author: Peter Deuflhard
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2005-01-13
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9783540210993

This book deals with the efficient numerical solution of challenging nonlinear problems in science and engineering, both in finite and in infinite dimension. Its focus is on local and global Newton methods for direct problems or Gauss-Newton methods for inverse problems. Lots of numerical illustrations, comparison tables, and exercises make the text useful in computational mathematics classes. At the same time, the book opens many directions for possible future research.

Transport Equations in Biology

Transport Equations in Biology
Author: Benoît Perthame
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2006-12-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3764378425

This book presents models written as partial differential equations and originating from various questions in population biology, such as physiologically structured equations, adaptive dynamics, and bacterial movement. Its purpose is to derive appropriate mathematical tools and qualitative properties of the solutions. The book further contains many original PDE problems originating in biosciences.

Partial Differential Equations

Partial Differential Equations
Author: Walter A. Strauss
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2007-12-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0470054565

Our understanding of the fundamental processes of the natural world is based to a large extent on partial differential equations (PDEs). The second edition of Partial Differential Equations provides an introduction to the basic properties of PDEs and the ideas and techniques that have proven useful in analyzing them. It provides the student a broad perspective on the subject, illustrates the incredibly rich variety of phenomena encompassed by it, and imparts a working knowledge of the most important techniques of analysis of the solutions of the equations. In this book mathematical jargon is minimized. Our focus is on the three most classical PDEs: the wave, heat and Laplace equations. Advanced concepts are introduced frequently but with the least possible technicalities. The book is flexibly designed for juniors, seniors or beginning graduate students in science, engineering or mathematics.

Hyperbolic Problems

Hyperbolic Problems
Author: Song Jiang
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 793
Release: 2012
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814417092

This two-volume book is devoted to mathematical theory, numerics and applications of hyperbolic problems. Hyperbolic problems have not only a long history but also extremely rich physical background. The development is highly stimulated by their applications to Physics, Biology, and Engineering Sciences; in particular, by the design of effective numerical algorithms. Due to recent rapid development of computers, more and more scientists use hyperbolic partial differential equations and related evolutionary equations as basic tools when proposing new mathematical models of various phenomena and related numerical algorithms.This book contains 80 original research and review papers which are written by leading researchers and promising young scientists, which cover a diverse range of multi-disciplinary topics addressing theoretical, modeling and computational issues arising under the umbrella of OC Hyperbolic Partial Differential EquationsOCO. It is aimed at mathematicians, researchers in applied sciences and graduate students."

The One-Dimensional Heat Equation

The One-Dimensional Heat Equation
Author: John Rozier Cannon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 522
Release: 1984-12-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521302432

This is a version of Gevrey's classical treatise on the heat equations. Included in this volume are discussions of initial and/or boundary value problems, numerical methods, free boundary problems and parameter determination problems. The material is presented as a monograph and/or information source book. After the first six chapters of standard classical material, each chapter is written as a self-contained unit except for an occasional reference to elementary definitions, theorems and lemmas in previous chapters.