Introduction to Soliton Theory: Applications to Mechanics

Introduction to Soliton Theory: Applications to Mechanics
Author: Ligia Munteanu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2006-07-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1402025777

This monograph is planned to provide the application of the soliton theory to solve certain practical problems selected from the fields of solid mechanics, fluid mechanics and biomechanics. The work is based mainly on the authors’ research carried out at their home institutes, and on some specified, significant results existing in the published literature. The methodology to study a given evolution equation is to seek the waves of permanent form, to test whether it possesses any symmetry properties, and whether it is stable and solitonic in nature. Students of physics, applied mathematics, and engineering are usually exposed to various branches of nonlinear mechanics, especially to the soliton theory. The soliton is regarded as an entity, a quasi-particle, which conserves its character and interacts with the surroundings and other solitons as a particle. It is related to a strange phenomenon, which consists in the propagation of certain waves without attenuation in dissipative media. This phenomenon has been known for about 200 years (it was described, for example, by the Joule Verne's novel Les histoires de Jean Marie Cabidoulin, Éd. Hetzel), but its detailed quantitative description became possible only in the last 30 years due to the exceptional development of computers. The discovery of the physical soliton is attributed to John Scott Russell. In 1834, Russell was observing a boat being drawn along a narrow channel by a pair of horses.

Solitons

Solitons
Author: P. G. Drazin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1989-02-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521336550

This textbook is an introduction to the theory of solitons in the physical sciences.

Mechanical Systems, Classical Models

Mechanical Systems, Classical Models
Author: Petre P. Teodorescu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2007-06-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402054424

This book examines the study of mechanical systems as well as its links to other sciences of nature. It presents the fundamentals behind how mechanical theories are constructed and details the solving methodology and mathematical tools used: vectors, tensors and notions of field theory. It also offers continuous and discontinuous phenomena as well as various mechanical magnitudes in a unitary form by means of the theory of distributions.

Introduction to the Mathematical Physics of Nonlinear Waves

Introduction to the Mathematical Physics of Nonlinear Waves
Author: Minoru Fujimoto
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1627052771

Nonlinear physics is a well-established discipline in physics today, and this book offers a comprehensive account of the basic soliton theory and its applications. Although primarily mathematical, the theory for nonlinear phenomena in practical environment

The Versatile Soliton

The Versatile Soliton
Author: Alexandre T. Filippov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2000-09-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780817636357

In this engaging book, the concept of the soliton is traced from the beginning of the last century to modern times with its recent applications.

Theoretical And Mathematical Physics: Problems And Solutions

Theoretical And Mathematical Physics: Problems And Solutions
Author: Willi-hans Steeb
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9813275391

'This is an excellent, well-written and very comprehensive book covering many topics of mathematics and physics. An exhaustive collection of problems with detailed solutions that may be valuable to students and young researchers in several fields, ranging from Mathematics to Quantum Physics is presented … I found the book helpful in regards to several subjects that are not covered in other mathematical physics introductory textbooks.'Contemporary PhysicsThis updated and extended edition of the book combines the topics provided in the two parts of the previous editions as well as new topics. It is a comprehensive compilation covering most areas in mathematical and theoretical physics. The book provides a collection of problems together with their detailed solutions which will prove to be valuable to students as well as to researchers in the fields of mathematics, physics, engineering and other sciences.Each chapter provides a short introduction with the relevant definitions and notations. All relevant definitions are given. The topics range in difficulty from elementary to advanced. Almost all problems are solved in detail and most of the problems are self-contained. Stimulating supplementary problems are also provided in each chapter. Students can learn important principles and strategies required for problem solving. Teachers will also find this text useful as a supplement, since important concepts and techniques are developed in the problems. Introductory problems for both undergraduate and advanced undergraduate students are provided. More advanced problems together with their detailed solutions are collected, to meet the needs of graduate students and researchers. Problems included cover new fields in theoretical and mathematical physics such as tensor product, Lax representation, Bäcklund transformation, soliton equations, Hilbert space theory, uncertainty relation, entanglement, spin systems, Lie groups, Bose system, Fermi systems differential forms, Lie algebra valued differential forms, metric tensor fields, Hirota technique, Painlevé test, Bethe ansatz, Yang-Baxter relation, wavelets, gauge theory, differential geometry, string theory, chaos, fractals, complexity, ergodic theory, etc. A number of software implementations are also provided.

The Structure of Physics

The Structure of Physics
Author: Carl F. von Weizsäcker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2007-01-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402052359

The book is a newly arranged and revised English version of "Aufbau der Physik" by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Some original chapters and sections have been deleted, and a new chapter about further insights and results of ur-theoretic research of the late 1980’s and 1990’s has been included. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker combines the perspectives of science, philosophy, religion and politics with a view towards the challenges as well as the responsibilities of our time.

Controlled Nucleosynthesis

Controlled Nucleosynthesis
Author: Stanislav Adamenko
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2007-04-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402058748

This book ushers in a new era of experimental and theoretical investigations into collective processes, structure formation, and self-organization of nuclear matter. It reports the results of experiments wherein for the first time the nuclei constituting our world (those displayed in Mendeleev's table as well as the super-heavy ones) have been artificially created. Pioneering breakthroughs are described, achieved at the "Proton-21" Laboratory, Kiev, Ukraine in a variety of new physical and technological directions.

Continuous Symmetries and Integrability of Discrete Equations

Continuous Symmetries and Integrability of Discrete Equations
Author: Decio Levi
Publisher: American Mathematical Society, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2023-01-23
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821843540

This book on integrable systems and symmetries presents new results on applications of symmetries and integrability techniques to the case of equations defined on the lattice. This relatively new field has many applications, for example, in describing the evolution of crystals and molecular systems defined on lattices, and in finding numerical approximations for differential equations preserving their symmetries. The book contains three chapters and five appendices. The first chapter is an introduction to the general ideas about symmetries, lattices, differential difference and partial difference equations and Lie point symmetries defined on them. Chapter 2 deals with integrable and linearizable systems in two dimensions. The authors start from the prototype of integrable and linearizable partial differential equations, the Korteweg de Vries and the Burgers equations. Then they consider the best known integrable differential difference and partial difference equations. Chapter 3 considers generalized symmetries and conserved densities as integrability criteria. The appendices provide details which may help the readers' understanding of the subjects presented in Chapters 2 and 3. This book is written for PhD students and early researchers, both in theoretical physics and in applied mathematics, who are interested in the study of symmetries and integrability of difference equations.

Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World

Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World
Author: Vesselin Petkov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2007-10-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402063180

The main focus of this volume is the question: is spacetime nothing more than a mathematical space (which describes the evolution in time of the ordinary three-dimensional world) or is it a mathematical model of a real four-dimensional world with time entirely given as the fourth dimension? The book contains fourteen invited papers which either directly address the main question of the nature of spacetime or explore issues related to it.