edited by Albert C J Luo (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA) , Liming Dai (University of Regina, Canada) , & Hamid R Hamidzadeh (Tennessee State University, USA)

Table of Contents (163k)
Preface (36k)
Chapter 1: Symmetry reductions for an inhomogeneus nonlinear diffusion equation (236k)

This volume provides useful tools in Lie group analysis to solve nonlinear partial differential equations. Many of important issues in nonlinear wave dynamics and nonlinear fluid mechanics are presented: Homotopy techniques are used to obtain analytical solutions; fundamental problems and theories in classic and quantum dynamical systems are discussed; and numerous interesting results about dynamics and vibration in sensor and smart systems are presented. Interval computation and nonlinear modeling in dynamics and control are also briefly included.

• Turbulence and Surface Gravity Waves on the Sun (N Mole et al.)
• A Fuzzy Blue Sky Catastrophe (J Q Sun & L Hong)
• Complex Dynamics in the Trajectory Control of Redundant Manipulators (B M Fernando Duarte et al.)
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Optimization of Spur Gears (F Pellicano et al.)
• Exact Solutions of a Second Grade Fluid in a Porous Medium (S Islam & C Y Zhou)
• Lump Solutions of 2D Generalized Gardner Equation (Y A Stepanyants et al.)
• In-Plane Free Vibrations of Compound High Speed Rotating Disks (H R Hamidzadeh)
• Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of Micro Self-Acting Gas Journal Bearing (H Huang et al.)
• Nonlinear Characteristics of Magnetorheological Damper under Base Excitation (Y Li et al.)
• Spatial Signal Characteristics of Shallow Paraboloidal Shell Structronic System (H H Yue et al.)
• Application of Magnetorheological Elastomer to Vibration Control (H X Deng & X L Gong)
• and other papers