Dynamical Systems, Plasmas and Gravitation Selected Papers from a Conference Held in Orléans la Source, France, 22-24 June 1997 /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Leach, P.G.L (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bouquet, S.E (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rouet, J.-L (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Fijalkow, E. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 1999.
• Σειρά: Lecture Notes in Physics, 518
• Θέματα: Physics.; Fluids.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Atoms.; Gravitation.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Complex Systems.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

Published in honour of Marc Feix this book tries to give a thorough overview of mathematical methods, analytical and numerical techniques and simulations applied to a variety of problems from physics and engineering. The book addresses graduate students, researchers and especially engineers. The mai...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• General introduction
• Honouring marc feix
• Interaction of a ultra-high-intensity electromagnetic pulse with an overdense plasma
• Plasma accelerator simulations using semi-lagrangian 1D and 2D Vlasov code
• 2D vlasov-eulerian simulations: Extension to the relativistic case
• A limiting case of averaging compactness lemmas motivated by the kinetic formulation of some classical systems of fluid mechanics
• Expansion of a negative ion plasma into vacuum
• A presentation of the diffusion velocity method
• Finite-difference schemes for the diffusion equation
• 1, 2, 3 plasmas!
• The notion of integrability for time-dependent Hamiltonian systems: Illustration from the relativistic motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field
• Stochastisation of phases in four-wave interaction
• Light bullets propagation in saturating nonlinear optical medium
• The dynamics of some quantum open systems with short-range nonlinearities
• Global dynamics of fusion plasmas
• The Jeans' criterion and the gravitational instability
• Recent progress in studies of one-dimensional gravitating systems
• Fluctuations of the kinetic energy and stability of coherent structures in a one-dimensional gravitating gas: Numerical simulation
• Structure formation in the one-dimensional gravitational gas
• Interaction forces and space symmetry
• Cellular automaton explosion models
• Acoustic earth imaging by seismic migration
• Integrability and alegbraic solutions for the 2-D lotka-Volterra system
• Isochronous centers of cubic reversible systems
• On the polynomial first integrals of the (a, b, c) Lotka-Volterra system
• Local integrability for nilpotent critical point
• Lie symmetries of generalized Ermakov systems
• Hamilton's principal function and integration by quadratures for an N-degree-of-freedom non - autonomous system given N invertible invariants in involution
• Hierarchies of similarity symmetries and singularity analysis
• Area preserving flows on compact connected surfaces
• A lattice model for tropical rain forests
• Periodic solutions and associated limit cycle for the generalised Chazy equation
• A branch and bound algorithm for the flow-shop scheduling problem
• On the linear third-order differential equation
• Telecommunication network optimisation and statistical physics
• A study of the analytical and local semiclassical Wigner distribution
• Quantum transition and irreversibility
• Pioneering in plasma simulation.