Scientific Publishing NONLINEAR CONSERVATION LAWS, FLUID SYSTEMS AND RELATED TOPICS: 13 (Series in Contemporary Applied Mathematics)

This book is a collection of lecture notes on Nonlinear Conservation Laws, Fluid Systems and Related Topics delivered at the 2007 Shanghai Mathematics Summer School held at Fudan University, China, by worlds leading experts in the field. The volume comprises ve chapters that cover a range of topics from mathematical theory and numerical approximation of both incompressible and compressible uid ows, kinetic theory and conservation laws, to statistical theories for uid systems. Researchers and graduate students who want to work in this field will benefit from this essential reference as each chapter leads readers from the basics to the frontiers of the current research in these areas.