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Asymptotics beyond all orders

edited by Harvey Segur, Saleh Tanveer, and Herbert Levine

(NATO ASI series, . Series B, Physics ; v. 284)

Plenum Press, c1991

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"Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Asymptotics beyond All Orders, held January 7-11, 1991, in La Jolla, California"--T.p. verso

"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

An asymptotic expansion is a series that provides a sequence of increasingly accurate approximations to a function in a particular limit. The formal definition, given by Poincare (1886, Acta Math. 8:295), is as follows. Given a function,

Table of Contents

  • Asymptotology and Borel Summation: Asymptotics, Superasymptotics Hyperasymptotics
  • M. Berry. The Geometric Model of Crystal Growth: Numerical Analysis of the Geometric Model of Crystal Growth
  • J.M. Hammersley. Dendritic Crystal Growth: An Experimental Assessment of Continuum Models of Dendritic Growth
  • J.P. Gollub. Directional Solidification of Solids: Directional Growth of Dilute Mixtures and Lamellar Eutectics
  • K. Kassner, et al. Flow in a Hele-Shaw Cell: Viscous Displacement in a Hele-Shaw Cell
  • S. Tanveer. The Rapidly Forced Pendulum: Exponentially Small Estimate for Separatrix Splittings
  • J. Scheurle, et al. Ordinary Differential Equations: Singular Perturbations of Solitons
  • Y. Pomeau. Solitary Water Waves in the Presence of Small Surface Tension: Solitary Waves with Ripples Beyond All Orders
  • J.T. Beale. Problems in Optics. Potpourri. 23 additional articles. Index.

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