Fluids and Waves: Recent Trends in Applied Analysis

by Fernanda Botelho (Editor), Fernanda Botelho, Thomas Hagen

This lively field has come to include the study of partial differential equations, dynamical systems and stochastic processes as well as classical analysis, and has applications ranging from engineering to neuroscience, physics and biology. These 17 articles, based on lectures from the May 2006 conference, include both techniques in analysis and applications and offer links between current research themes. Specific topics include the vibrations of a damageable string, an explicit semigroup generator and its spectral properties, energy-level weak solutions for a nonlinear fluid-structure interaction model, stimulus-induced bumps in two-dimensional neural field theory, exotic dynamics in a firing rate model of neural tissue with threshold accommodation, embedded models of self-assembly in DNA complexes, stochastic models with negative friction for intermittent rolling of biological mimetics, neural networks that learn to approximate autonomous flows, the method of Lyapunov functions of two variables, and an analysis of map formation in visual perception. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

287 pages, Paperback

First published September 23, 2007

About the author

Maria Fernanda Botelho nasceu no Porto no dia 1 de Dezembro de 1926 e faleceu em Lisboa no dia 11 de Dezembro de 2007. Estudou Filologia Clássica nas Universidades de Coimbra e Lisboa. Foi, nos anos 50, uma das fundadora da revista Távola Redonda. Tornou-se conhecida como poetisa primeiro e como romancista depois. Ganhou vários prémios, entre os quais o Prémio Camilo Castelo Branco, o Prémio da Crítica e o Prémio Eça de Queirós.