非線性波、孤立子和混沌（英文版）

Foreword to the first edition
Foreword to the second edition
1 Introduction
1.1 Occurrence of nonlinear waves and instabilities in Nature
1.1.1 Nonlinear phenomena in our everyday experience
1.1.2 Nonlinear phenomena in the laboratory
1.2 Universal wave equations
1.2.1 The Korteweg-de Vries and Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations and a first look at solitons
1.2.2 The nonlinear Schr6dingcr equation
1.2.3 Nonlinear optics
1.3 What is a plasma？
1.4 Wave modes on a water surface
1.4.1 Mathematicaltheory
1.4.2 Comments
1.5 Linear stability analysis and its limitations
1.6 Nonlinear structures
1.6.1 Coherent structures and pattern formation
1.7 Contents of Chapters 2-11
2 Linear waves and instabilities in infinite media
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Plasma waves
2.3 CMM diagrams
2.4 Instabilities
2.5 The Vlasov equations
2.6 Weak instabilites
Exercises
3 Convective and non-convective instabilities;guoup velcoity in unstable media
4 A first look at surface waves and instabilities
5 Model equations for small amplitued waves and solitons;weakly nonlinear theory
6 Exact methods for fully nonlinear waves and solitons
7 Cartesian solitons in ond the two space dimensions
8 Evolution and stability of initially one-dimensional waves and solitons
9 Cylindrical and spherical solitons in palsmas and other media
10 Soliton metamorphosis
11 Non-coerent phenomena
Appendices
References
Author index
Subject index