Wave Motion: Theory, Modelling, and Computation
Subtitle: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Peter D. Lax
By: edited by Alexandre J. Chorin, Andrew J. Majda
Contributors: Majda, Andrew J.
Series: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications -- 7; Mathematical Sciences Research Institute publications -- 7.
Publisher: Springer US
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781461395850; 9781461395836
Subjects: Physics
Description: The 60th birthday of Peter Lax was celebrated at Berkeley by a conference entitled Wave Motion: theory, application and computation held at the mathematical Sciences Research Institute, June 9-12, 1986. Peter Lax has made profound and essential contributions to the topics described by the title of the conference, and has also contributed in important ways to many other mathematical subjects, and as a result this conference volume dedicated to him includes research work on a variety of topics, not all clearly related to its title.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: Lattice Vortex Models and Turbulence Theory; title: The Curve Shortening Flow; title: Lax's Construction of Parametrices of Fundamental Solutions of Strongly Hyperbolic Operators. Its Prehistory and Posthistory; title: The Bukiet-Jones Theory of Weak Detonation Waves in Curvlinear Geometry; title: Three-Dimensional Fluid Dynamics in a Two-Dimensional Amount of Central Memory; title: On the Nonlinearity of Modern Shock-Capturing Schemes; title: High Frequency Semilinear Oscillations; title: Exact Controllability and Singular Perturbations; title: Transonic Flow and Compensated Compactness; title: Scattering Theory for the Wave Equation on a Hyperbolic Manifold; title: Determinants of Laplacians on Surfaces; title: The Small Dispersion Limit of the Korteweg-de Vries Equation.