Title | Wave Motion: Theory, Modelling, and Computation [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Peter D. Lax / edited by Alexandre J. Chorin, Andrew J. Majda |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer US, 1987 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9583-6 |
Descript | X, 336 p. online resource |
Lattice Vortex Models and Turbulence Theory -- The Curve Shortening Flow -- Laxโs Construction of Parametrices of Fundamental Solutions of Strongly Hyperbolic Operators, Its Prehistory and Posthistory -- The Bukiet-Jones Theory of Weak Detonation Waves in Curvilinear Geometry -- Three-Dimensional Fluid Dynamics in a Two-Dimensional Amount of Central Memory -- On the Nonlinearity of Modern Shock-Capturing Schemes -- High Frequency Semilinear Oscillations -- Exact Controllability and Singular Perturbations -- Transonic Flow and Compensated Compactness -- Scattering Theory for the Wave Equation on a Hyperbolic Manifold -- Determinants of Laplacians on Surfaces -- The Small Dispersion Limit of the Korteweg-de Vries Equation