Waves and Stability in Continuous Media: Proceedings of the 11th Conference on WASCOM 2001 Book

	Preface
	Conference Data
	Linear Stability Analysis of a 1D Flow in a Poroelastic Material under Disturbances with Adsorption	1
	Compressible Flows in Time-dependent Domains: Zero Mach Number Limit	8
	Recovering the Potential in the Schrodinger Equation from the N-D Map	14
	Multi-resolution Analysis in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect	28
	Space Homogeneous Solutions of the Linear Boltzmann Equation for Semiconductors: A Semigroup Approach	34
	Stationary Heat Conduction in a Rotating Frame	41
	Grad's Closure in the Kinetic Theory of a Chemically Reacting Gas	48
	Electron Flow Stability in Bulk Silicon in the Limit of Small Electric Field	55
	End Effects of Saint-Venant's Type in Mixtures of Thermoelastic Solids	62
	Characteristic Shocks in Exceptional Directions	68
	Schrodinger-like Model for Interband Tunnelling in Heterogeneous Semiconductor Devices: A Current Estimate	75
	Instabilities in Compressible Fluids	82
	An Inverse Problem in Fluid Dynamics	89
	Continuum Mechanics and Dynamical Permutations	95
	Entropy Principle and Non Controllable Data for the Moment Systems	103
	On the Onset of Convection in Presence of a Bounded Non Uniform Temperature Gradient	118
	Global Geometrical Solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi Equations of Evolution Type	124
	Helmholtz-Boltzmann Thermodynamics on Configurations Space	130
	Variational Setting of Nonlinear Equilibrium Problem: Wedge Discontinuity Lines	136
	Wavelet Solutions in Elastic Nonlinear Oscillations	144
	Continuum Equations for Rarefied Gases	150
	Detonation Wave Structure Arising from the Kinetic Theory of Reacting Gases	161
	Large Size Planar DVMs and Two Continuous Relations	169
	A Constitutive Equation for the Pressure Tensor Leading to the Hydrodynamic Form of a Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation	176
	Some Applications of Stability Switch Criteria in Delay Differential Systems	179
	Decay and Other Properties of Cross-Sectional Measures in Elasticity	191
	A Reduction Method for Multiple Wave Solutions to Quasilinear Dissipative Systems	204
	Stability Results for Penetrative Convection in Porous Media for Fluids with Cubic Density	214
	Dynamics of Lines in the Spreading of Liquids on Solid Surfaces	220
	On the Boussinesq Hierarchy	232
	Basic Parameters in Continuum Mechanics	243
	Perturbative Method in the Study of Nonlinear Evolution Problems in the Diffusion of the Particles of a Mixture	253
	On the Generalized Energy Method for Channel Flows	259
	Quasi-static Approximations of Photon Transport in an Interstellar Cloud	271
	Double-diffusive Convection in Porous Media: The Darcy and Brinkman Models	277
	Existence and Uniqueness for Prandtl Equations and Zero Viscosity Limit of the Navier-Stokes Equations	290
	Space-time Fractional Diffusion: Exact Solutions and Probability Interpretation	296
	Bifurcation Analysis of Equilibria with a Magnetic Island in Two-Dimensional MHD	302
	Existence of Unbounded Solutions in Thermoelasticity	316
	Compton Cooling of a Radiating Fluid	322
	Fast Relaxation Phenomena in Extended Thermodynamic of Superfluids	328
	On the Reaction Stress in Bodies with Linear Internal Constraints	334
	Integration and Segregation in a Population - A Short Account of Socio-Thermodynamics	340
	Second Sound Propagation in Superfluid Helium via Extended Thermodynamics	347
	BGK Model for Simulating Electron Transport in Semiconductor Devices	360
	Nonlinear Waves in Continua with Scalar Microstructure	366
	A Navier-Stokes Model for Chemically Reacting Gases	373
	Slow Eigenmodes of the Shallow-Water Equations	379
	A Comparison Between Relativistic Extended Thermodynamics with 14 Fields and that with 30 Fields	385
	Some Numerical Results on the Development of Singularities in the Dynamics of Harmonic Maps	391
	On Bifurcations in Multilattices	397
	An H-Theorem in a Simple Model of Chemically Reactive Dense Gases	409
	Free Boundary in Radial Symmetric Chemotaxis	416
	Modeling of Dissipative processes	428
	On a Transport Problem in a Time-dependent Domain	438
	On the Long Time Behaviour of the Solutions of Non-linear Parabolic Equations in Unbounded Domains	447
	On the Geometry of Spatial Hydrodynamic Motions. Solitonic Connections	458
	Rayleigh Waves in Horizontally Stratified Media: Relevance of Resonant Frequencies	471
	Symmetry Classification for a Class of Energy-Transport Models	477
	Thermodynamics and Balance Laws for Processes of Inelastic Deformations	484
	Euler Equations Arising from Extended Kinetic Theory: Sound Wave Propagation	496
	Central Schemes for Balance Laws	503
	Long Time Behavior of a Shallow Water Model for a Basin with Varying Bottom Topography	515
	A Model for the Chemiotherapy of the HIV Infection with Antigenic Variation	521
	Kinetic and Fluidynamic Approaches to Four-Wave-Mixing and Thermal Acoustic Phenomena in Quantum Optics	527
	Linearization and Solutions of a Simplified Model for Reacting Mixtures	539
	Elastic Waves in Materials with Thin Layers	548
	Unconditional Nonlinear Stability Via the Energy Method	554
	On the Nonlinear Diffusion in the Exterior of a Sphere	563
	Entropy Methods for the Asymptotic Behaviour of Fourth-order Nonlinear Diffusion Equations	569
	On the Symmetry Classification for a Heat Conduction Model	579
	Hydrodynamic Analysis for Hot-carriers Transport in Semiconductors	585
	Small Oscillations of a Spherical Liquid Bridge between Two Equal Disks Under Gravity Zero	591