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Download or read book Structure And Dynamics Of Nonlinear Waves In Fluids: Proceedings Of The Iutam/isimm Symposium written by K Kirchgassner and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995-08-31 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This symposium brought together mechanicians, physicists and applied mathematicians to discuss the interdisciplinary topic of nonlinear wave motion, which displays effects that give rise to a multitude of unanswered questions. Nonlinear waves in fluids in particular display all the prominent nonlinear phenomena such as chaos, turbulence and pattern formation. Amongst the topics emphasized in these proceedings are: travelling fronts, solitary waves and periodic waves (dissipative and conservative); temporal and spatial asymptotics of perturbations of waves; bifurcations, stability and local dynamics of waves; interaction between different waves, and between waves and the mean flow; wave breaking, nonlinear effects on focussing and diffraction; modulation and envelope equations (their derivation and validity); and numerical and experimental results.