A massive transition of interest from solving linear partial differential equations to solving nonlinear ones has taken place during the last two or three decades. The availability of better computers has often made numerical experimentations progress faster than the theoretical understanding of nonlinear partial differential equations. The three most important nonlinear phenomena observed so far both experimentally and numerically, and studied theoretically in connection with such equations have been the solitons, shock waves and turbulence or chaotical processes. In many ways, these phenomena have presented increasing difficulties in the mentioned order. In particular, the latter two phenomena necessarily lead to nonclassical or generalized solutions for nonlinear partial differential equations.
- ISBN10 1281789291
- ISBN13 9781281789297
- Publish Date 1 January 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint North-Holland
- Format eBook
- Pages 380
- Language English