Nonlinear PDEs, Their Geometry, and Applications Proceedings of the Wisła 18 Summer School /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kycia, Radosław A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ułan, Maria (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schneider, Eivind (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Tutorials, Schools, and Workshops in the Mathematical Sciences ,
• Subjects: Partial differential equations.; Differential geometry.; Partial Differential Equations.; Differential Geometry.

This volume presents lectures given at the Summer School Wisła 18: Nonlinear PDEs, Their Geometry, and Applications, which took place from August 20 - 30th, 2018 in Wisła, Poland, and was organized by the Baltic Institute of Mathematics. The lectures in the first part of this volume were delivered b...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Lectures
• Contact Geometry, Measurement and Thermodynamics
• Lectures on Geometry of Monge-Ampere Equations with Maple
• Geometry of Monge-Ampere structures
• Introduction to symbolic computations in differential geometry
• Part II Participants' Contributions
• On the geometry arising in some meteorological models in two and three dimensions
• Gas flow with phase transitions: thermodynamics and the Navier-Stokes equations
• Differential invariants in thermodynamics
• Monge-Ampere grassmannians, characteristic classes and all that
• Weak inverse problem of calculus of variations for geodesic mappings and relation to harmonic maps
• Integrability of geodesics of totally geodesic metrics.