Linear and Nonlinear Waves

Zusatztext The re-issue of this excellent book on linear and nonlinear waves in paperback form is to be welcomed. (Zentralblatt Math! Volume 940! No 15! 2000) Informationen zum Autor Gerald Beresford Whitham was a British-born American applied mathematician and the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied Mathematics of Applied & Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. Klappentext Der Klassiker zum Thema "Wellen" ist jetzt als Paperback erhältlich! Die beiden Teile des Buches sind hyperbolischen bzw. dispersiven Wellen gewidmet. Abwechselnd werden mathematisch-theoretische Aspekte und Spezialfälle sowie physikalische Anwendungen diskutiert. Dabei wurden die Beispiele aus vielen Bereichen der Wissenschaft und Technik gewählt, um ein möglichst breites Publikum anzusprechen. (11/99) Zusammenfassung Now in an accessible paperback edition, this classic work is just as relevant as when it first appeared in 1974, due to the increased use of nonlinear waves. It covers the behavior of waves in two parts, with the first part addressing hyperbolic waves and the second addressing dispersive waves. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction and General Outline. HYPERBOLIC WAVES. Waves and First Order Equations. Specific Problems. Burger's Equation. Hyperbolic Systems. Gas Dynamics. The Wave Equation. Shock Dynamics. The Propagation of Weak Shocks. Wave Hierarchies. DISPERSIVE WAVES. Linear Dispersive Waves. Wave Patterns. Water Waves. Nonlinear Dispersion and the Variational Method. Group Velocities, Instability, and Higher Order Dispersion. Applications of the Nonlinear Theory. Exact Solutions: Interacting Solitary Waves. References. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Whitham, G. B. Whitham, G.b. Whitham, Gerald B Whitham, Gerald B. Whitham, Gerald Beresford Whitham, WHITHAM G B
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.1999
• EAN: 9780471359425
• ISBN: 978-0-471-35942-5
• No. of pages: 660
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Pure and Applied Mathematics; Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics; Pure and Applied Mathematics: A Wiley Series of Texts, Monographs and Tracts; Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics; Pure and Applied Mathematics: A Wiley Series of Texts, Monographs and Tracts
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; Mathematik, Signalverarbeitung, Mathematics, Signal Processing, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik, Applied Mathematics in Science, Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften