This book is about the explicit elimination of fast oscillatory scales in dynamical systems, which is important for efficient computer-simulations and our understanding of model hierarchies. The author presents his new direct method, homogenization in time, based on energy principles and weak convergence techniques. How to use this method is shown in several general cases taken from classical and quantum mechanics. The results are applied to special problems from plasma physics, molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry. Background material from functional analysis is provided and explained to make this book accessible for a general audience of graduate students and researchers.
- ISBN10 3540697845
- ISBN13 9783540697848
- Publish Date 1 September 1998 (first published 18 June 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Springer
- Format eBook
- Language English