Integral manifolds and inertial manifolds for dissipative partial differential equations / P. Constantin, C. Foias, B. Nicolaenko, ... [et al.]

This book focuses a new geometric construction of inertial manifolds for a class of dissipative partial differential equations. In the Chapters 2 to 14 a general method, based on Cauchy integral manifolds, of constructing these inertial manifolds, is presented. The key geometric property is a spectral blocking property, the method is explicitly constructive and avoiding any fixed point theorem. The Chapters 15 to 19 are devoted to the application of the theory presented in the Chapters 2 to 14. For the reviewer this is the most interesting part of the book. The high flexibility of their method is demonstrated by constructing inertial manifolds for several specific examples. So the reader will find in Chapter 15 the application of the developed theory to the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, in Chapter 16 to the nonlocal Burger equation and in Chapter 17 to the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The remaining two Chapters are devoted to reaction-diffusion equations. So in Chapter 18 a parabolic equation in two space variables is considered and in Chapter 19 the Chaffee-Infante equation. This part of the book shows very impressive how the theory presented in the Chapters 2 to 10 have to be adjusted for the latter applications. This gives a good impression about the presented method which can be readily adapted to the special structure of each of the presented dissipative equations.

This book should become a standard lecture for all who are interested in the field of dissipative partial differential equations. (zbMath)