Nonlinear Problems in the Physical Sciences and Biology: Proceedings of a Battelle Summer Institute, Seattle, July 3 - 28, 1972

ISBN-13: 9783540062516 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 362 str.

I. Stakgold; D. D. Joseph; D. H. Sattinger

Spis treści

Lyapunov methods and equations of parabolic type.- Multiple solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations.- Fading memory and functional-differential equations.- Singular perturbation by a quasilinear operator.- Remarks on branching from multiple eigenvalues.- Asymptotic analysis of a class of nonlinear integral equations.- Remarks about bifurcation and stability of quasi-periodic solutions which bifurcate from periodic solutions of the Navier Stokes equations.- Bifurcation of periodic solutions into invariant tori: The work of Ruelle and Takens.- Ergodic theory and statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium processes.- Mathematical problems in theoretical biology.- On predator-prey equations simulating an immune response.- Bifurcation theory for gradient systems.- Six lectures on the transition to instability.- Groundwater flow as a singular perturbation problem and remarks about numerical methods.- Nonlinear problems in nuclear reactor analysis.- Some non-linear problems in statistical mechanics and biology.- Stability properties and periodic behavior of controlled biochemical systems.