Although the study of classical thermoelasticity has provided information on linear systems, only recently have results on the asymptotic behavior completed our basic understanding of the generic behavior of solutions. Through systematic work that began in the 80s, we now also understand the basic features of nonlinear systems. Yet some questions remain open, and the field has lacked a comprehensive survey that explores these past results and presents recent developments.
Evolution Equations in Thermoelasticity presents a modern treatment of initial value problems and of initial boundary...

Das zweibandige Werk umfasst den gesamten Stoff von in der Analysis ublichen Vorlesungen fur einen sechssemestrigen Bachelor-Studiengang der Mathematik. Die Bucher sind vorlesungsnah aufgebaut und bilden die Vorlesungen exakt ab. Jeder Band enthalt Beispiele und zusatzlich ein Kapitel "Prufungsfragen," das Studierende auf mundliche und schriftliche Prufungen vorbereiten soll. Das Werk ist ein Kompendium der Analysis und eignet sich als Lehr- und Nachschlagewerk sowohl fur Studierende als auch fur Dozenten."

The book in hand is based on lectures which were given at the University of Bonn in the winter semesters of 1989/90 and 1990/91. The aim of the lectures was to present an elementary, self-contained introduction into some important aspects of the theory of global, small, smooth solutions to initial value problems for non linear evolution equa tions. The addressed audience included graduate students of both mathematics and physics who were only assumed to have abasie knowledge of linear partial differential equations. Thus, in the spirit of the underlying series, this book is intended to serve...

Other examples include the equations of elasticity, heat equations, the equations of thermoelasticity, Schrodinger equations, Klein-Gordon equations, Maxwell equations and plate equations.