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Proceedings of the IUTAM/ISIMM Symposium on Structure and Dynamics of Nonlinear Waves in Fluids

[edited by] A. Mielke, K. Kirchgässner

(Advanced series in nonlinear dynamics, v. 7)

World Scientific Publishing Co., c1995

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Structure and dynamics of nonlinear waves in fluids

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Symposium held in Hannover, August 17-20, 1994

Includes bibliographical references

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Description

This symposium brought together mechanicians, physicists and applied mathematicians to discuss the interdisciplinary topic of nonlinear wave motion, which displays effects that give rise to a multitude of unanswered questions. Nonlinear waves in fluids in particular display all the prominent nonlinear phenomena such as chaos, turbulence and pattern formation. Amongst the topics emphasized in these proceedings are: travelling fronts, solitary waves and periodic waves (dissipative and conservative); temporal and spatial asymptotics of perturbations of waves; bifurcations, stability and local dynamics of waves; interaction between different waves, and between waves and the mean flow; wave breaking, nonlinear effects on focussing and diffraction; modulation and envelope equations (their derivation and validity); and numerical and experimental results.

Table of Contents

  • Geometric instability criteria for periodic and quasiperiodic waves, T. Bridges
  • solitary wave dynamics on a falling film, H.C. Chang
  • space-time behaviour in problems of hydrodynamic type, J.-P. Eckmann
  • gravity-capillary solitary waves as a dynamical reversible system, G. Iooss
  • nonlinear dynamics of wavy film flows, J. Liu
  • long nonlinear waves in rotating systems, W.K. Melville
  • resonant triads of capillary-gravity waves in the presence of a wind-drift current, L. Morland. (Part contents).

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