Lectures on nonlinear physics

von Sergei V. Bulanov

226 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The main goal of these lectures is to get students acquainted with a glossary of nonlinear physics. I try to present the material of the lectures (delivered at SNS Pisa in April -- June 1999) in such a way that the students do not need to use additional literature during the first reading. The lectures focus on the following arguments: discussion of nonlinear problems in classical physics; the use of the multiple time scale expansion method to solve problems of nonlinear oscillations; description of nonlinear wave steepening and shock wave formation using the Lagrange variables; solution of nonlinear elliptic equations considering the Liouville equation; soliton solutions of the Korteweg de Vries, Sine-Gordon and Nonlinear Schrödinger equations; the use of the Backlund transformation; self-similarity of nonlinear systems.

• Reihe: Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore
• ISBN: 9788876422676
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2001
• Genre: Physik, Astronomie/Theoretische Physik
• Verlag: Edizioni della Normale