====== Differences ====== This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.
Both sides previous revision Previous revision Next revision | Previous revision | ||
gibson:teaching:spring-2012:iam950 [2012/01/26 08:36] gibson |
gibson:teaching:spring-2012:iam950 [2012/02/08 10:25] (current) gibson [News] |
||
---|---|---|---|
Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
greg.chini@unh.edu, Kingsbury Hall W113 | greg.chini@unh.edu, Kingsbury Hall W113 | ||
- | **abstract** This course examines the theory of bifurcations, pattern | + | **abstract:** This course examines the theory of bifurcations, pattern |
formation, and spatiotemporal chaos in systems governed | formation, and spatiotemporal chaos in systems governed | ||
by time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equations. | by time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equations. | ||
- | The course begins with comparatively well-developed theories | + | We begin with comparatively well-developed theories |
and simple model systems (e.g. 1-dimensional nonlinear PDEs) | and simple model systems (e.g. 1-dimensional nonlinear PDEs) | ||
and progresses by stages of increasing complexity to the | and progresses by stages of increasing complexity to the | ||
Line 21: | Line 21: | ||
patterns in turbulent shear flows. | patterns in turbulent shear flows. | ||
- | [[gibson:teaching:spring-2012:iam950:syllabus | Detailed syllabus]], | + | ====== News ====== |
+ | |||
+ | **3 Feb 2012:** {{:gibson:teaching:spring-2012:ks_cnab2.m}} Matlab source code for time-integration of Kuramoto-Sivashinksy eqn. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **26 Jan 2012:** Please read the Introduction of Cross and Greenside for | ||
+ | Monday 30 Jan. I have placed a few xeroxed copies place on the bookshelf outside my | ||
+ | Kingsbury N309E. Please borrow for a few hours or overnight and return a.s.a.p. | ||
+ | so that others have a chance to read. But also please order and purchase the book | ||
+ | for use throughout the semester. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== Homework ====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | ^ # ^ due ^ notes ^ | ||
+ | | [[:gibson:teaching:spring-2012:iam95:HW1]] | | | | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ====== General info ====== | ||
+ | **Syllabus:**[[gibson:teaching:spring-2012:iam950:syllabus | detailed & updated ]] {{:gibson:teaching:spring-2012:iam950syllabus.pdf|course announcement (PDF)}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Primary text:** //Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Nonequilibrium | ||
+ | Systems//, Michael Cross and Henry Greenside, Cambridge University Press, 2009. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supplementary texts:** | ||
+ | * //Dissipative Structure & Weak Turbulence//, Paul Manneville, Academic Press, 1990. | ||
+ | * //Instabilities, Chaos, and Turbulence//, Paul Manneville, Imperial College Press, 2010. | ||
+ | * //Pattern Formation: An Introduction to Methods//, Rebecca Hoyle, Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics, 2006. | ||
+ | * //Stability and Transition in Shear Flows//, Peter Schmid and Dan Henningson, Springer-Verlag, 2000. | ||
+ | * //Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems, and Symmetry//, Philip Holmes, John Lumley, and Gal Berkooz, Cambridge University Press, 1996 | ||
+ | * [[http://www.chaosbook.org |Chaos: Classical and Quantum]], Predrag Cvitanovi\'c et. al, www.chaosbook.org, 2011. | ||
+ | * //Linear and Nonlinear Waves//, Gerald Whitham, Wiley \& Sons, 1973 | ||
+ |