Nonlinear problems : present and future : proceedings of the first Los Alamos Conference on Nonlinear Problems, Los Alamos, NM, U.S.A., March 2-6, 1981

Content: Edited by Page ii Copyright page Page iii Preface Pages v-vi A.R. Bishop, D.K. Campbell, B. Nicolaenko Dedication Page vii Optimal Control of Non Well Posed Distributed Systems and Related Non Linear Partial Differential Equations Original Research Article Pages 3-16 Jacques-Louis Lions Compactness and Topological Methods for some Nonlinear Variational Problems of Mathematical Physics Original Research Article Pages 17-34 Pierre L. Lions On Yang-Mills Fields Original Research Article Pages 35-50 I.M. Singer Gauge Theories for Soliton Problems Original Research Article Pages 51-64 D.H. Sattinger The Inverse Monodromy Transform is a Canonical Transformation Original Research Article Pages 65-89 H. Flaschka, A.C. Newell Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations Original Research Article Pages 91-107 James M. Hyman Limit Analysis of Physical Models Original Research Article Pages 109-115 M. Remond, A. Friaâ, M. Raupp Viscosity Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations Original Research Article Pages 117-125 Michael G. Crandall Bifurcation of Stationary Vortex Configurations Original Research Article Pages 127-131 Julian I. Palmore Exact Invariants for Time-Dependent Nonlinear Hamiltonian Systems Original Research Article Pages 133-145 H.R. Lewis, P.G.L. Leach Isolating Integrals in Galactic Dynamics and the Character of Stellar Orbits Original Research Article Pages 147-155 William I. Newman Physics in Few Dimensions Original Research Article Pages 159-167 V.J. Emery Solution of the Kondo Problem Original Research Article Pages 169-177 N. Andrei Kinks of Fractional Charge in Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems Original Research Article Pages 179-187 J.R. Schrieffer Theoretically Predicted Drude Absorption by a Conducting Charged Soliton in Doped-Polyacetylene Original Research Article Pages 189-193 M.J. Rice Polarons in Polyacetylene Original Research Article Pages 195-208 Alan R. Bishop, David K. Campbell Light Scattering and Absorption in Polyacetylene Original Research Article Pages 209-227 Shahab Etemad, Alan J. Heeger Quasi Solitons: A Case Study of the Double Sine-Gordon Equations Original Research Article Pages 229-235 P. Kumar, R.R. Holland Classical Field Theory with Z(3) Symmetry Original Research Article Pages 237-244 Herbert M. Ruck Some Characteristic Nonlinearities of Chemical Reaction Engineering Original Research Article Pages 247-265 Rutherford Aris Propagating Fronts in Reactive Media Original Research Article Pages 267-285 Paul C. Fife Regularity Results for the Equations of Incompressible Fluids Mechanic at the Brink of Turbulence Original Research Article Pages 289-315 Claude Bardos Finite Parameter Approximative Structure of Actual Flows Original Research Article Pages 317-327 Ciprian Foias, Roger Temam The Role of Characteristic Boundaries in the Asymptotic Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations Original Research Article Pages 329-334 F.A. Howes Some Approaches to the Turbulence Problem Original Research Article Pages 335-366 J. Mathieu, D. Jeandel, C.M. Brauner Instability of Pipe Flow Original Research Article Pages 367-377 Anthony T. Patera, Steven A. Orszag Some Formalism and Predictions of the Period-Doubling Onset of Chaos Original Research Article Pages 379-394 Mitchell J. Feigenbaum Tricritical Points and Bifurcations in a Quartic Map Original Research Article Pages 395-402 Shau-Jin Chang, Michael Wortis, Jon A. Wright Recent Experiments on Convective Turbulence Original Research Article Pages 403-408 Jerry P. Gollub Experimental Observations of Complex Dynamics in a Chemical Reaction Original Research Article Pages 409-422 J.-C. Roux, Jack S. Turner, W.D. McCormick, Harry L. Swinney Nonlinear Plasma Dynamics Below the Cyclotron Frequency Original Research Article Pages 423-433 John M. Greene Turbulence and Self-Consistent Fields in Plasmas Original Research Article Pages 435-464 D. Pesme, D. DuBois Self-Focusing Tendencies of the Nonlinear Schrödinger and Zakharov Equations Original Research Article Pages 465-478 Harvey A. Rose, D.F. Dubois Chaotic Oscillations in a Simplified model for Langmuir Waves Original Research Article Pages 479-482 P.K.C. Wang Index of Contributors Page 483