NONLINEAR WAVES IN ELASTIC CRYSTALS by Gerard A. Maugin ( 9780198534846 )

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NONLINEAR WAVES IN ELASTIC CRYSTALS

By:

Gerard A. Maugin

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

11 November, 1999

Series:

Oxford Mathematical Monographs

Pages:

324

Description:

Based in part on a lecture course, this book gives an authoritative and up-to-date overview of recent research on the behaviour of waves in crystalline solids. It covers aspects of plasticity, fracture, and nonlinear wave propagation.

Synopsis:

The mathematical modelling of changing structures in materials is of increasing importance to industry where applications of the theory are found in subjects as diverse as aerospace and medicine. This book deals with aspects of the nonlinear dynamics of deformable ordered solids (known as elastic crystals) where the nonlinear effects combine or compete with each other. Physical and mathematical models are discused and computational aspects are also included. Different models are considered - on discrete as well as continuum scales - applying heat, electricity, or magnetism to the crystal structure and these are analysed using the equations of rational mechanics. In this way the student is introduced to the important equations of nonlinear science that describe shock waves, solitons and chaos and also the non-exactly integrable systems or partial differential equations. A large number of problems and examples are included, many taken from recent research and involving both one-dimensional and two-dimensional problems as well as some coupled degress of freedom.

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