PHYS517 NONLINEAR EVOLUTION EQUATIONS AND SOLITONS
| Course Code: |
2300517 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Physics |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Prof.Dr. ÝSMAÝL RAFATOV |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
Integrable nonlinear partial differential equations such as the Korteweg-de Vries and the Nonlinear Schrodinger equations. Solitons. Hamiltonian systems. Inverse scattering transform technique. Lax pairs. Painleve analysis.
