This book addresses the issues of nonlinearity and disorder. It covers mathematical and numerical techniques as well as applications of nonlinearity and disorder. The analysis of continuous and discrete systems is also shown.
An integral equation approach to internal solitary waves, W.A.B. Evans; role of integrability and controllability of optical solitons in fiber communications, A. Hasegawa; nonlinear disordered lattices and effective equation method, V.V. Konotop; parallel numerical solution process of a two dimensional time dependent nonlinear partial differential equation, I. Martin et al; some connections between neurophysiology and optical computing based on the theory of complexity, J.A. Martin-Pereda and A. Gonzalez-Marcos; pulse-envelope solitons on 2-d lattices with in-plane displacements, F.G. Mertens et al; on fluctuation induced nonlinear transport in plasmas, K.H. Spatschek and Eickermann; nonlinear localized modes, vortices and domain walls in ordered and disordered nonlinear lattices, S. Takeno and S. Homma; pulse compression by wave collapse, S.K. Turitsyn; experiments with solitons in coupled Josephson transmission lines, A.V. Ustinov; motion of curves and surfaces, M. Wadati and K. Nakayama; solitary waves in polyethylene crystals, M.A. Collins and F. Zhang; electron in a two dimensional system with point scatterers and magnetic field, S. Gredeskol et al; nonlinear energy localization in a disordered system - application to DNA melting, M. Peyrard et al. (Part Contents).