This work contains the proceedings of the Conference on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, 1997. Topics addressed include direct and inverse diffraction by periodic structures, and weak solutions of the generalized magnetic flow equations.
Direct and inverse diffraction by periodic structures, G. Bao; weak flow of H-systems, Y.-M. Chen; strongly compact attractor for dissipative Zakharov equations, B.-L. Guo et al; C-infinity solutions of generalized porous medium equations, M. Otani and Y. Sugiyama; Cauchy problem for generalized IMBq equation, G.-W. Chen and S.-B. Wang; inertial manifolds for a nonlocal Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, J.-Q. Duan et al; weak solutions of the generalized magnetic flow equations, S.-H. He and Z.-D. Dai; the solution of Hammerstein integral equation without coercive conditions, Y.-L. Shu; global behaviour of the solution of nonlinear forest evolution equation, D.-J. Wang; uniqueness of generalized solutions for semiconductor equations, J.-S. Xing and Y. Hu; on the vectorial Hamiltonian-Jacobi system, B.-S. Yan; an integrable Hamiltonian system associated with cKdV hierarchy, J.-S. Zhang et al. (Part contents)