Nonlinear Waves 3

Based on material discussed at the traditional School on Nonlinear physics in Gorky a cross section of the current status of nonlinear physics in the USSR is given. This third volume emerged from the 1989 School and deals with nonlinear problems in physics and astrophysics, quantum and solid state physics, dynamical chaos and self-organization.

I Physics and Astrophysics.- Magnetic Intermittency (With 2 Figures).- The Large Scale Structure of the Universe, the Burgers Equation and Cellular Structures (With 3 Figures).- Generation of Observation Turbulence Spectrum and Solitary Dipole Vortices in Rotating Gravitating Systems (With 4 Figures).- Nonlinear Dynamics of Particle-Like Solutions of Inhomogeneous Fields (With 18 Figures).- The Turbulent Alfvén Layer (With 2 Figures).- Frequency Selfconversion and Reflectionless Propagation of a Powerful Electromagnetic Pulse in an Ionized Medium (With 1 Figure).- Nonlinear Stability of an Ideal Plasma.- Dynamics of a High-Frequency Streamer (With 3 Figures).- The Propagation of the Front of Parametrically Excited Capillary Ripples (With 4 Figures).- Nonlinear Surface and Internal Waves in Rotating Fluids (With 12 Figures).- A Note on the Mechanism of the Resonant Nonlinear Instability in Boundary Layers.- Stability of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Shear Flows and Jets in Rotating Fluids (With 5 Figures).- On One Solution of the Nonlinear Problem of Electrodynamics (With 2 Figures).- II Quantum Physics, Physics of the Solid State.- Phenomenological Quantum Electrodynamics of Active Media and Superradiance (With 6 Figures).- Light Amplification by a Three-Level Atomic System Without Population Inversion (With 2 Figures).- On the Nonlinear Critical State Dynamics in Type II Superconductors.- Nonlinear Dynamics of Electrons in Metals (With 1 Figure).- The Outlook for Solid-State Lasers in the Laser Market (With 1 Figure).- Autowave Mechanism in Low-Temperature Chemistry of Solids (With 6 Figures).- Coherent Amplification of Weak Pulses.- Nonlinear Dynamics and Kinetics of Magnons.- The Nonlinear Dynamics of Wave Systems with Spatio-Temporal Collapses (With 4 Figures).- IIIDynamical Chaos and Self-Organization.- The Destiny of the Universality Hypothesis in the Theory of Developed Wave Turbulence.- Renormalization Chaos in Period Doubling Systems (With 10 Figures).- On Resonances, Pendulum Equations, Limit Cycles and Chaos (With 5 Figures).- Synergetics. New Trends (With 7 Figures).- Cellular Automata as Dynamical Systems.- An Approach to the Computation of the Topological Entropy (With 4 Figures).- Stochastic Dynamics of Pattern Formation in Discrete Systems (With 4 Figures).- Chaos and Period Adding Sequence in a Microwave Oscillator with a Ferrite Resonator (With 3 Figures).- Index of Contributors.