Waves and Stability in Continuous Media

This book contains about 20 invited papers and 40 contributed papers in the research areas of theoretical continuum mechanics, kinetic theory and numerical applications of continuum mechanics. Collectively these papers give a good overview of the activities and developments in these fields in the last few years. The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: • Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings® (ISTP® / ISI Proceedings) • Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings) • CC Proceedings — Engineering & Physical Sciences Contents:Chaos in Some Linear Kinetic Models (J Banasiak)Inverse Problems in Photon Transport. Part I: Determination of Physical and Geometrical Features of an Interstellar Cloud (A Belleni-Morante et al.)Inverse Problems in Photon Transport. Part II: Features of a Source Inside an Interstellar Cloud (A Belleni-Morante & R Riganti)The Riemann Problem for a Binary Non-Reacting Mixture of Euler Fluids (F Brini & T Ruggeri)Rate of Convergence toward the Equilibrium in Degenerate Settings (L Desvillettes & C Villani)Asymptotic and Other Properties of Positive Definite Integral Measures for Nonlinear Diffusion (J N Flavin)Thermocapillary Fluid and Adiabatic Waves Near its Critical Point (H Gouin)Constitutive Models for Atactic Elastomers (C O Horgan & G Saccomandi)Considerations about the Gibbs Paradox (I Müller)Transport Coefficients in Stochastic Models of the Revised Enskog and Square-Well Kinetic Theories (J Polewczak & G Stell)Some Recent Mathematical Results in Mixtures Theory of Euler Fluids (T Ruggeri)From Kinetic Systems to Diffusion Equations (F Salvarani & J L Vázquez)Non-Boussinesq Convection in Porous Media (B Straughan)and other papers Readership: Researchers, academics and graduate students working in the fields of continuum mechanics, wave propagation, stability in fluids, kinetic theory and computational fluid dynamics. Keywords:Discontinuity and Shock Waves;Stability in Fluid Mechanics;Small Parameter Problem;Kinetic Theories Towards Continuum Models;Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics;Numerical Applications