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For more than 200 years, the Fourier Transform has been one of the most important mathematical tools for understanding the dynamics of linear wave trains. This book presents the development of nonlinear Fourier analysis of measured space and time series. It also presents techniques and methods of the inverse scattering transform for data analysis.
List of contents
1. Brief History of Nonlinear Water Waves, Fourier analysis and Integrability
Part I: Theoretical and Physical Considerations
2. Theories of Water Waves
3. Introduction to Linear and Nonlinear Fourier analysis
4. The Infinite-Line Inverse Scattering Transform
5. The Periodic Inverse Scattering Transform
6. Additional Theoretical Considerations
7. Physical Perspective and Exotic Solutions
8. Extending the Inverse Scattering Transform to Higher Order
Part II: Numerical and Time Series Analysis Algorithms
9. Numerical Methods for Infinite-Line Boundary Conditions
10. Numerical Algorithms for the Analysis of Nonlinear Space and Time Series
11. Procedures for the Analysis of Nonlinear Wave Data
12. Nonlinear Power Spectral Analysis
Part III: Time Series Analysis of Experimental Data
13. Surface Waves in the Laboratory
14. Surface Waves in the Adriatic Sea
15. Surface Waves at Duck Pier
16. Surface Waves in the North Sea
17. Internal Waves in the Andaman Sea
Part IV: Future Directions
18. Engineering Applications of IST
19. Chaotic Dynamics Nonlinear Wave Equations and Water Waves
Report
"The book is an encyclopaedia of mathematical models of nonlinear ocean waves and methods of their investigation." --Zentralblatt MATH 1250
"The book should be of great interest not only to oceanographers, but to others interested in the intriguing physics of nonlinear waves. Much of the theory developed in the book applies to other branches of physics, such as plasma physics and nonlinear optics. Because of the high quality of writing, this book may make an ideal focus for graduate-level seminars as well as being a comprehensive reference text on nonlinear water waves." --Pure and Applied Geophysics
