Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I SETTING THE SCENE
- 1 What are singularities all about?
- 2 Blowup
- 3 Similarity profile
- 4 Continuum equations
- 5 Local singular expansions
- 6 Asymptotic expansions of PDEs
- PART II FORMATION OF SINGULARITIES
- PART III PERSISTENT SINGULARITIES: PROPAGATION
- Appendix A Vector calculus
- Appendix B Index notation and the summation convention
- Appendix C Dimensional analysis
- References
- Index
1 - What are singularities all about?
from PART I - SETTING THE SCENE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I SETTING THE SCENE
- 1 What are singularities all about?
- 2 Blowup
- 3 Similarity profile
- 4 Continuum equations
- 5 Local singular expansions
- 6 Asymptotic expansions of PDEs
- PART II FORMATION OF SINGULARITIES
- PART III PERSISTENT SINGULARITIES: PROPAGATION
- Appendix A Vector calculus
- Appendix B Index notation and the summation convention
- Appendix C Dimensional analysis
- References
- Index
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- Singularities: Formation, Structure, and Propagation , pp. 3 - 15Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015