Shock Waves and Reaction—Diffusion Equations:
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Main Author: Smoller, Joel 1935- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1994
Edition:Second Edition
Series:Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, A Series of Comprehensive Studies in Mathematics 258
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:For this edition, a number of typographical errors and minor slip-ups have been corrected. In addition, following the persistent encouragement of Olga Oleinik, I have added a new chapter, Chapter 25, which I titled "Recent Results." This chapter is divided into four sections, and in these I have discussed what I consider to be some of the important developments which have come about since the writing of the first edition. Section I deals with reaction-diffusion equations, and in it are described both the work of C. Jones, on the stability of the travelling wave for the Fitz-Hugh-Nagumo equations, and symmetry-breaking bifurcations. Section II deals with some recent results in shock-wave theory. The main topics considered are L. Tartar's notion of compensated compactness, together with its application to pairs of conservation laws, and T.-P. Liu's work on the stability of viscous profiles for shock waves. In the next section, Conley's connection index and connection matrix are described; these general notions are useful in con­ structing travelling waves for systems of nonlinear equations. The final section, Section IV, is devoted to the very recent results of C. Jones and R. Gardner, whereby they construct a general theory enabling them to locate the point spectrum of a wide class of linear operators which arise in stability problems for travelling waves. Their theory is general enough to be applicable to many interesting reaction-diffusion systems
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 634 p)
ISBN:9781461208730
9781461269298
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4612-0873-0

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