Handbook of Solitons: Research, Technology and Applications

ISBN: 9781616684624 出版年：2010 页码：872 S P Lang Salim H Bedore Nova Science

In mathematics and physics, a soliton is a self-reinforcing solitary wave (a wave packet or pulse) that maintains its shape while it travels at constant speed. Solitons are caused by a cancellation of nonlinear and dispersive effects in the medium. "Dispersive effects" refer to dispersion relations between the frequency and the speed of the waves. Solitons arise as the solutions of a widespread class of weakly nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations describing physical systems. This new book presents the latest research in the