Modeling by Nonlinear Differential Equations

Schuster Peter Phillipson Paul E.

ISBN 10: 9814271594 / ISBN 13: 9789814271592

Published by World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2009

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pp. xi + 225.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modeling by Nonlinear Differential Equations
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9814271594
• ISBN 13: 9789814271592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book aims to provide mathematical analyses of nonlinear differential equations, which have proved pivotal to understanding many phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology. Topics of focus are autocatalysis and dynamics of molecular evolution, relaxation oscillations, deterministic chaos, reaction diffusion driven chemical pattern formation, solitons and neuron dynamics. Included is a discussion of processes from the viewpoints of reversibility, reflected by conservative classical mechanics, and irreversibility introduced by the dissipative role of diffusion. Each chapter presents the subject matter from the point of one or a few key equations, whose properties and consequences are amplified by approximate analytic solutions that are developed to support graphical display of exact computer solutions.

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This book aims to provide mathematical analyses of nonlinear differential equations, which have proved pivotal to understanding many phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology. Topics of focus are nonlinear oscillations, deterministic chaos, solitons, reactiondiffusion-driven chemical pattern formation, neuron dynamics, autocatalysis and molecular evolution. Included is a discussion of processes from the vantage of reversibility, reflected by conservative classical mechanics, and irreversibility introduced by the dissipative role of diffusion. Each chapter presents the subject matter from the point of one or a few key equations, whose properties and consequences are amplified by approximate analytic solutions that are developed to support graphical display of exact computer solutions.