The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem: A Status Report

Book Overview

to FPU.- Dynamics of Oscillator Chains.- Role of Chaos for the Validity of Statistical Mechanics Laws: Diffusion and Conduction.- The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem and the Metastability Perspective.- Resonance, Metastability and Blow up in FPU.- Center Manifold Theory in the Context of Infinite One-Dimensional Lattices.- Numerical Methods and Results in the FPU Problem.- An Integrable Approximation for the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Lattice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642092098
• ISBN13: 9783642092091
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"