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List of contents
Preface; Part I: Singular Perturbation Methods. Singular Perturbations, Asymptotic Evaluation of Integrals, and Computational Challenges; Capture and the Connection Formulas for the Transition across a Separatrix Part II: Asymptotic-Induced Domain Decomposition. Domain Decomposition: An Instrument of Asymptotic-Numerical Methods; An Asymptotically Induced Domain Decomposition Method for Parabolic Boundary Layer Problems; Asymptotic-Induced Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws Part III: Perturbation Methods and Their Use in Numerical Computations. Asymptotic Analysis of Dissipative Waves with Applications to Their Numerical Simulation; A Hybrid Perturbation-Galerkin Technique for Partial Differential Equations; Part IV: Asymptotic Analysis in Physics. On the Equations of Physical Oceanography ; Transonics and Asymptotics; Evolution to Detonation in a Nonuniformly Heated Reactive Medium; Surface Evolution Equations from Detonation Theory; An Asymptotic Analysis of the Quantum Liouville Equation; Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Some 2-D Nonlinear Diffusion Equations: Computational Results Part V: Asymptotic Behavior of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Blow-up of Solutions of Nonlinear Heat and Wave Equations; Convergence to Steady State of Solutions of Viscous Conservation Laws Part VI: Toward the Automation of Asymptotic Analysis. Symbolic Manipulation Software and the Study of Differential Equations
About the author
Hans G. Kaper, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois. Marc Garbey, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.
Summary
Suitable for industrial and applied mathematicians, analysts, and computer scientists, this title integrates two fields - asymptotic analysis and the numerical solution of partial differential equations - in 16 lectures from a February 1990 workshop at the Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois.