Unstable Phenomena in Mechanical Systems

Abstract

This report has focused on the development of mathematical techniques to understand unstable physical processes with particular emphasis on dynamic behavior in fluids, plasmas, and multi-particle systems. The particular focus has been on the development of singular perturbation techniques to study amplitude equations arising in hydrodynamic stability theory, in particular the Ginzburg-Landau equation of fluid dynamics and the Zakharov equation of plasma physics. Two successful approaches have been developed to these problems. The first is directed at studying branching and bifurcation processes near nonlinear plane waves and the second approach focused on the singular (NLS) limit of the Zakharov system governing plasma turbulence. Keywords: Perturbation theory; Hydrodynamic configurations; Mathematics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA223640

Entities

People

  • Paul K. Newton

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geometry
  • Inverse Scattering
  • Mathematics
  • Perturbations
  • Physics
  • Plane Waves
  • Standing Waves
  • Turbulence
  • Universities
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.