Developments in Mathematical and Experimental Physics Volume C: Hydrodynamics and Dynamical Systems / edited by Alfredo Macias, Francisco Uribe, Enrique Diaz.

The FIRST MEXICAN MEETING ON MATHEMATICAL AND EXPERI­ MENTAL PHYSICS was held at EL COLEGIO N ACIONAL in Mexico Cit­ y, Mexico, from September 10 to 14, 2001. This event consisted of the LEOPOLDO GARciA-COLiN SCHERER Medal Lecture, delivered by Prof. Nicholas G. van Kampen, a series of plenary talks...

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Other Authors: Macias, Alfredo (Editor), Uribe, Francisco (Editor), Diaz, Enrique (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
Edition:1st ed. 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • I Hydrodynamics
  • Some Thoughts About Hydrodynamics
  • Geometry of Irreversibility
  • 3 Geometrization of Irreversibility
  • Invariance Principle to Decide Between Micro and Macro Computations
  • Hydrodynamics, Grad's Thirteen Moments Method and the Structure of Shock Waves
  • The Oseen's Spiral Flow
  • II Dynamical Systems
  • Singularities and Chaos in Classical and Celestial Mechanics
  • Regularization of Binary Collisions for Quasihomogeneous Potentials
  • Symmetric Periodic Orbits for the Collinear 3-body Problem Via the Continuation Method
  • Averaging in Hamiltonian Systems with Slowly Varying Parameters
  • Exact and Adiabatic Invariant for the Time-Dependent Harmonic Oscillators
  • III Other Topics
  • Microquasars: Recent Developments
  • We and the Quantum World
  • Violate Superluminal Signals Causality?
  • DNA Evolution as a Dynamical System: A Physicalist Perspective
  • Leopoldo García-Colín Scherer: Brief Biography
  • Prof. Nicholas G. van Kampen: Brief Biography.