Lectures on nonlinear physics (Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore) - Softcover

Bulanov, Sergei V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8876422676 ISBN 13: 9788876422676

Publisher: Edizioni della Normale, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edizioni della Normale
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 8876422676
• ISBN 13: 9788876422676
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226