Singularities in fluids, plasmas, and optics /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1993.
Description:x, 348 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:NATO ASI series. Series C, Mathematical and physical sciences ; vol. 403
NATO ASI series. Series C, Mathematical and physical sciences no. 403.
Subject:Singularities (Mathematics) -- Congresses.
Fluid mechanics -- Mathematics -- Congresses.
Plasma (Ionized gases) -- Mathematics -- Congresses.
Optics -- Mathematics -- Congresses.
Mathematical physics -- Congresses
Fluid mechanics -- Mathematics.
Mathematical physics.
Optics -- Mathematics.
Plasma (Ionized gases) -- Mathematics.
Singularities (Mathematics)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1489283
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Caflisch, Russel E.
Papanicolaou, George
ISBN:0792323335 (alk. paper)
Notes:"Proceedings of a NATO advanced research workshop July 6-10, 1992, Heraklion, Greece" -- T. p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Well-posed Numerical Calculations for Free-Surface Flows / G. Baker and S. Tanveer
  • On the Well-Posedness of Two Fluid Interfacial Flows with Surface Tension / J. T. Beale, T. Y. Hou and J. S. Lowengrub
  • Can Three-Dimensional Ideal Flows Become Singular in a Finite Time? / M. E. Brachet, M. Meneguzzi, A. Vincent, H. Politano and P. L. Sulem
  • Singularity Formation for Models of Axi-Symmetric Swirling Flow / R. E. Caflisch and P. Smereka
  • Complex Analytic Branching Structures in Porous Media Convection / T. Dombre
  • Singularities of the Velocity Field and Interaction Locality of Turbulence / G. E. Falkovich
  • Solitons, Euler's Equation, and the Geometry of Curve Motion / R. E. Goldstein and D. M. Petrich
  • Asymptotic and Numerical Results for Blowing-up Solutions to Semilinear Heat Equations / J. B. Keller and J. S. Lowengrub
  • Scaling of a Singularity of Euler / R. M. Kerr
  • The Rayleigh Centrifugal Instability for Vortex Rings with Swirl / A. Lifschitz
  • Dynamics of Magnetic Vortex Rings / N. Papanicolaou
  • Morphology and Singularities of Vortex Flows / A. Pumir and E. D. Siggia
  • Topological Transitions in Hele-Shaw Flow / M. J. Shelley, R. E. Goldstein and A. I. Pesci
  • Separatrices and Singularities / A. Bhattacharjee
  • Nonlinear Dynamics of Ultra-Cold Gas / V. Flambaum and E. Kuznetsov
  • The Interaction Representation for Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation Penleve Problem / G. M. Fraiman
  • Self-Similar Regimes of Subsonic Langmuir Wave Collapse / V. M. Malkin and V. N. Khudik
  • Asymptotic Profiles of Blow-up Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation / H. Nawa
  • Modulational Stability of Periodic Solutions of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation / D. T. Papageorgiou, G. C. Papanicolaou and Y. S. Smyrlis
  • Dynamic Rescaling for Tracking Point Singularities: Application to Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation and Related Problems / G. Papanicolaou, C. Sulem, P. L. Sulem and X. P. Wang
  • Dynamic Self-Focusing of Structured Laser Beams in Plasma / H. A. Rose and D. F. DuBois
  • Experimental Manifestation of Strong Langmuir Turbulence / A. M. Rubenchik
  • On Long-Lived Singularities in the Nonlinear Shroedinger Equation / V. F. Shvets, N. E. Kosmatov and B. J. LeMesurier
  • On Collapsing Solutions of the Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation in Supercritical Case / V. F. Shvets, N. E. Kosmatov and B. J. LeMesurier
  • Sharp Criteria for Wave Collapse and Wave Collapse Ideology in Application to Optical Pulses Compression / S. K. Turitsyn
  • Fluid Analogies in Optics / C. O. Weiss, K. Staliunas, C. P. Smith, G. Slekys and M. F. H. Tarroja.