Lectures on nonlinear physics / Edition 1

by Sergei V. Bulanov

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788876422676
Publisher:	Scuola Normale Superiore
Publication date:	05/17/2013
Series:	Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.02(d)