Nonlinear PDE's in condensed matter and reactive flows
By: edited by Henri Berestycki and Yves Pomeau.
Contributors: Berestycki, H.; Pomeau, Yves.; North Atlantic Treaty Organization Scientific Affairs Division.
Series: NATO science series -- v. 569.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
Subjects: Reaction-diffusion equations -- Congresses; Superconductivity -- Congresses; Superfluidity -- Congresses; Mathematical physics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Nonlinear partial differential equations abound in modern physics. The problems arising in these fields lead to fascinating questions and, at the same time, progress in understanding the mathematical structures is of great importance to the models. Nevertheless, activity in one of the approaches is not always sufficiently in touch with developments in the other field. The book presents the joint efforts of mathematicians and physicists involved in modelling reactive flows, in particular superconductivity and superfluidity. Certain contributions are fundamental to an understanding of such cutting-edge research topics as rotating Bose-Einstein condensates, Kolmogorov-Zakharov solutions for weak turbulence equations, and the propagation of fronts in heterogeneous media.
Notes: "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on PDE's in Models of Superfluidity, Superconductivity and Reactive Flows, Cargése, France, 21 June-3 July 1999"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.