This monograph presents a systematic and unified approach to the non-linear stability problem and transitions in the Couette-Taylor problem, by the means of analytic and constructive methods. The most "elementary" one-parameter theory is first presented. More complex situations are then analyzed (mode interactions, imperfections, non-spatially periodic patterns). The whole analysis is based on the mathematically rigorous theory of centre manifold and normal forms, and symmetries are fully taken into account. These methods are very general and can be applied to other hydrodynamical instabilities, or more generally to physical problems modelled by partial differential equations.
- ISBN10 3540941541
- ISBN13 9783540941545
- Publish Date March 1994 (first published 11 March 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 November 2010
- Publish Country DE
- Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
- Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 242
- Language English