Publisher's Synopsis
This volume, the proceedings of the Tenth Florida Workshop on Nonlinear Astronomy, brings together the work of a diverse group of astronomers, physicists and mathematicians to discuss the following topics: chaos in observational data of variable stars; unstable long wavelength MHD waves; the interstellar medium; Alfven waves and interstellar turbulence; sinuous oscillations and steady warps of polytropic disks; waves in shock-bounded slabs; normal modes and continuous spectra; vorticity and mixing in disks; bending waves in flattened stellar systems; global wave patterns in galaxies; invariant spectra of dynamical systems time-periodic potentials; Lyapunov numbers in pulsating systems; Arnold diffusion in an oscillator chain; universal properties of escape; counterrotating bars; shadowing and noise in nonhyperbolic systems; relativistic accretion disks; tidal perturbation of a gaseous disk; magnetised accretion disks; structural stability; nonlinear stellar pulsation; tidal perturbations, gravitational amplification and galaxy spiral arms; gaseous vortices in barred spiral galaxies; and the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398.
