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The primary goal of this book is to give mathematicians, applied mathematicians, and engineers a survey of some problems of current interest in the realm of classical nonlinear electromagnetic theory; a secondary aim is the presentation of the wide variety of mathematical techniques which may be employed to study such problems. Among the problems treated are those which involve the propagation of electromagnetic waves in nonlinear dielectric media, the transmission of signals on distributed parameter nonlinear lines, and nonlocal problems such as the determination of the equilibrium states of nonlinearly elastic current-bearing wires placed in an ambient magnetic field. The mathematical techniques employed include several from the theory of shock waves, i.e Riemann invariants arguments, as well as semi-inverse methods, classical energy and compactness arguments, and the use of the Young measure and compensated compactness arguments to handle weak convergence problems for nonlinear systems of partial differential equations.

Examines ill-posed, initial-history boundary-value problems associated with systems of partial-integrodifferential equations arising in linear and nonlinear theories of mechanical viscoelasticity, rigid nonconducting material dielectrics, and heat conductors with memory. Variants of two differential inequalities, logarithmic convexity, and concavity are employed. Ideas based on energy arguments, Riemann invariants, and topological dynamics applied to evolution equations are also introduced. These concepts are discussed in an introductory chapter and applied there to initial boundary value problems of linear and nonlinear diffusion and elastodynamics. Subsequent chapters begin with an explanation of the underlying physical theories.