Waves And Stability In Continuous Media - Proceedings Of The 13th Conference On Wascom 2005

Download or read book Waves And Stability In Continuous Media - Proceedings Of The 13th Conference On Wascom 2005 written by Roberto Monaco and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains recent contributions in the field of waves propagation and stability in continuous media. In particular, the contributions consider discontinuity and shock waves, stability in fluid dynamics, small parameter problems, kinetic theories towards continuum models, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and numerical applications.The volume is the fourth in a series published by World Scientific since 1999. The following distinguished authors contribute to the present book: S Bianchini, R Caflish, C Cercignani, Y Choquet-Bruhat, C Dafermos, L Desvillettes, V Giovangigli, H Gouin, I Muller, D Parker, B Straughan, M Sugiyama and W Weiss.