Nonlinear Waves in Elastic Crystals

Nonlinear Waves in Elastic Crystals
ISBN-10
0198534841
ISBN-13
9780198534846
Category
Crystals
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Gérard A. Maugin

Description

The mathematical modelling of changing structures in materials is of increasing importance to industry where applications of the theory are found in subjects as diverse as aerospace and medicine. This book deals with aspects of the nonlinear dynamics of deformable ordered solids (known aselastic crystals) where the nonlinear effects combine or compete with each other. Physical and mathematical models are discused and computational aspects are also included. Different models are considered - on discrete as well as continuum scales - applying heat, electricity, or magnetism to thecrystal structure and these are analysed using the equations of rational mechanics. In this way the student is introduced to the important equations of nonlinear science that describe shock waves, solitons and chaos and also the non-exactly integrable systems or partial differential equations. Alarge number of problems and examples are included, many taken from recent research and involving both one-dimensional and two-dimensional problems as well as some coupled degress of freedom.

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