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This graduate-level course provides a unified treatment of nonlinear oscillations and wave phenomena with applications to mechanical, optical, geophysical, fluid, electrical and flow-structure interaction problems. This graduate-level course provides a unified treatment of nonlinear oscillations and wave phenomena with applications to mechanical, optical, geophysical, fluid, electrical and flow-structure interaction problems.

Subjects

nonlinear oscillations | nonlinear oscillations | wave phenomena | wave phenomena | flow-structure interaction problems | flow-structure interaction problems | nonlinear free and forced vibrations | nonlinear free and forced vibrations | nonlinear resonances | nonlinear resonances | self-excited oscillations | self-excited oscillations | lock-in phenomena | lock-in phenomena | nonlinear dispersive and nondispersive waves | nonlinear dispersive and nondispersive waves | resonant wave interactions | resonant wave interactions | propagation of wave pulses | propagation of wave pulses | nonlinear Schrodinger equation | nonlinear Schrodinger equation | nonlinear long waves and breaking | nonlinear long waves and breaking | theory of characteristics | theory of characteristics | the Korteweg-de Vries equation | the Korteweg-de Vries equation | solitons and solitary wave interactions | solitons and solitary wave interactions | stability of shear flows | stability of shear flows

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Description

This graduate-level course provides a unified treatment of nonlinear oscillations and wave phenomena with applications to mechanical, optical, geophysical, fluid, electrical and flow-structure interaction problems.

Subjects

nonlinear oscillations | wave phenomena | flow-structure interaction problems | nonlinear free and forced vibrations | nonlinear resonances | self-excited oscillations | lock-in phenomena | nonlinear dispersive and nondispersive waves | resonant wave interactions | propagation of wave pulses | nonlinear Schrodinger equation | nonlinear long waves and breaking | theory of characteristics | the Korteweg-de Vries equation | solitons and solitary wave interactions | stability of shear flows

License

Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm

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