Differential Equations Theory, Numerics and Applications: Proceedings of the ICDE '96 held in Bandung Indonesia / Edition 1

by E. van Groesen, E. Soewono

Overview

This volume contains the invited and contributed papers presented at an International Conference on Differential Equations held in Indonesia towards the end of 1996.
Part I contains eight invited contributions from leading experts. The topics covered embrace solitary waves, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, tidal motion and mechanical systems. Part II presents 18 contributed papers, covering a rich selection of topics involving the application and solution of differential equations to problems in various disciplines.
Audience: Mathematicians, engineers and research scientists in other fields whose work involves differential equations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792348313
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	01/31/1998
Series:	Mathematics and Its Applications Series
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	389
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Parametric Excitation in Mechanical Systems.- Generation and Suppression of Radiation by Solitary Pulses.- Buffeting Problems modelling by use of Lifting Surface Methods in Unsteady Aerodynamics with Separation.- The Influence of an External Force on a Solitary Wave.- An Asymptotic Method in Ship Hydrodynamics.- Non Classical Solitary Waves.- Mathematical Modelling of Tidal Motion in Regional Waters of Singapore.- Phase Portraits of Quadratic Systems.- Microwave Heating: Critical Dependence on Data and Parameters.- On the Convergence of Sampled Data Nonlinear System.- Nonlinear Galerkin Methods for Hamiltonian Systems; Comparison of Two Approximation Techniques.- On Internal Resonances For a Weakly Nonlinear Beam Equation.- Genus-two Solutions to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation.- On the Formation of Hotspot in Microwave Heating.- Model Manifolds for Analysing Data of Wave Splitting.- Modelling of Sediment Transport and Bathymetric Change in Lemah Abang, Jepara Coastal Waters.- A Double Pendulum in a Wind Field.- Solution of the Affine Toda Equations as an Initial Value Problem.- Mathematical Modelling of Chlorine Decay in a Contact Tank.- The Dynamics of a Near-Grazing Oscillator.- Oscillation Criteria for Second Order Nonlinear Differential Equations.- Radiation and Diffraction of Sound from Bodies Mounted on an Infinite Baffle Using Boundary Element Methods.- A Differential Equation for Filtering of a Shastic Dynamical System.- General Theory of Relativity Without Christoffel Symbols.- A Back-turning Jet Formed by a Uniform Shallow Stream Hitting a Vertical Wall.- A Fifth-order Five-stage RK-Method Based on Harmonic Mean.

Editorial Reviews

Presents eight invited and 18 contributed papers on differential equation topics such as solitary waves, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, tidal motion, mechanical systems, microwave heating, wave splitting, sediment transport and bathymetric change in coastal waters, chlorine decay in a contact tank, solutions to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation, radiation and diffraction of sound from bodies mounted on an infinite baffle, and the dynamics of a near grazing oscillator. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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