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The Genesis of Simulation in Dynamics Thomas P. Weissert

The Genesis of Simulation in Dynamics By Thomas P. Weissert

The Genesis of Simulation in Dynamics by Thomas P. Weissert


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An introduction to certain aspects of developments in the modern theory of dynamics and simulation for a wide audience of scientifically literate readers.

The Genesis of Simulation in Dynamics Summary

The Genesis of Simulation in Dynamics: Pursuing the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem by Thomas P. Weissert

An introduction to certain aspects of developments in the modern theory of dynamics and simulation for a wide audience of scientifically literate readers. Unlike general texts on chaos theory and dynamical systems theory, this book follows the work on a specific problem at the very beginning of the modern era of dynamics, from its inception in 1954 through the early 1970s. It discusses such problems as the nonlinear oscillator simulation, the seminal discoveries at MIT in the early 1950s, the mathematical rediscovery of solitons in the late 1950s and the general problems of computability. In following these developments, the initial development of many of the now standard techniques of nonlinear modelling and numerical simulation are seen. No other text focuses so tightly and covers so completely one specific, pernicious problem at the heart of dynamics.

Table of Contents

I: History.- 1. The FPU Model and Simulation: A Little Discovery.- 1.1. Development.- 1.2. Dynamics to Statistical Mechanics.- 1.3. Surfaces of Constraint.- 1.4. Global Versus Local Analysis.- 1.5. Simulation.- 1.6. Loading the Nonlinear String.- 1.7. Modal Representation.- 1.8. Model Considerations.- 1.9. Results.- 1.10. Discussion Post Hoc.- 2. The FPU Research Program: Echoes on a String.- 2.1. The Threads of a Research Program.- 2.2. The Nonlinear Discrete Lattice.- 2.3. Ford, 1961.- 2.4. Jackson, 1963.- 2.5. Ford and Waters, 1963.- 2.6. The Continuous String.- 2.7. In the Continuous Limit.- 2.8. Discreteness as Viscosity.- 2.9. The First Soliton Paper.- 3. The Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser Theorem: Here Comes the Surprise.- 3.1. A Brief History of Dynamics.- 3.2. The Fundamental Problem of Dynamics.- 3.3. The Small Divisors Problem.- 3.4. Poincare to Kolmogorov.- 3.5. The Conjecture.- 3.6. Beyond the Blaze.- 3.7. The Henon and Heiles Simulation, 1964.- 4. Research Threads Come Together: Harmonic Convergence.- 4.1. The Story Continues.- 4.2. Izrailev and Chirikov, 1966.- 4.3. Zabusky and Deem, 1967.- 4.4. Walker and Ford, 1969: Physical Review.- 4.5. Ford and Lunsford, 1970.- 4.6. Lunsford and Ford, 1972.- 4.7. The Toda Lattice Is Integrable.- II: Philosophy.- 5. Steps to an Epistemology of Simulation.- 5.1. Introduction.- 5.2. Hierarchy of Modeling.- 5.3. Historical Significance.- 5.4. Experiment.- 5.5. Epistemology.- 5.6. Preconceptions.- 5.7. Strategies for Belief and Pursuit.- 5.8. Case Study I: Fermi-Pasta-Ulam.- 5.9. Case Study II: Henon and Heiles.- 5.10. Methodology.- 5.11. Irreversibility.- 5.12. Proof.- 5.13. Proof and Simulation.- Append.- A. Hamiltonian Dynamics: Language of Abstraction.- A.1. Topology and Phase-Space Trajectories.- A.2. Canonical Transformations.- A.3. Transforming the Unperturbed String.- A.4. Cyclic Coordinates.- A.5. Liouville Integrability.- A.6. The Action-Angle Variables.- A.7. Dynamics on a Torus.- A.8. Commensurability: Two Types of Motion.- A.9. Digital Representation.- A.10.Physical Reality and the Continuum.- A.11.Perturbing the String.- References.

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NLS9780387982373
9780387982373
038798237X
The Genesis of Simulation in Dynamics: Pursuing the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem by Thomas P. Weissert
New
Paperback
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
1997-10-10
176
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