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Nonlinear partial differential equations for scientists and engineers
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Numerical AnalysisEngineeringVariational Principles.- First-orderNonlinear Wave PropagationInverse Scattering Transform.-Exercises.- Bibliography.- IndexNonlinear EquationNonlinear Hyperbolic Problem
Preface to the Third Edition.- Preface.- Linear Partial Differential Equations.- Nonlinear Model Equations and Variational Principles.- First-Order, Quasi-Linear Equations and Method of Characteristics.- First-Order Nonlinear Equations and Their Applications.- Conservation Laws and Shock Waves.- Kinematic Waves and Real-World Nonlinear Problems.- Nonlinear Dispersive Waves and Whitham's Equations.- Nonlinear Diffusion-Reaction Phenomena.- Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Transform.- The Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation and Solitary Waves.- Nonlinear Klein--Gordon and Sine-Gordon Equations.- Asymptotic Methods and Nonlinear Evolution Equations.- Tables of Integral Transforms.- Answers and Hints to Selected Exercises.- Bibliography.- Index.