Dynamical Systems, Plasmas and Gravitation: Selected Papers from a Conference Held in Orléans la Source, France, 22–24 June 1997

General introduction....Pages 1-4
Honouring marc feix....Pages 7-17
Interaction of a ultra-high-intensity electromagnetic pulse with an overdense plasma....Pages 21-32
Plasma accelerator simulations using semi-lagrangian 1D and 2D Vlasov code....Pages 33-43
2D vlasov-eulerian simulations: Extension to the relativistic case....Pages 44-55
A limiting case of averaging compactness lemmas motivated by the kinetic formulation of some classical systems of fluid mechanics....Pages 56-61
Expansion of a negative ion plasma into vacuum....Pages 62-73
A presentation of the diffusion velocity method....Pages 74-81
Finite-difference schemes for the diffusion equation....Pages 82-92
1, 2, 3 plasmas!....Pages 93-103
The notion of integrability for time-dependent Hamiltonian systems: Illustration from the relativistic motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field....Pages 104-116
Stochastisation of phases in four-wave interaction....Pages 117-129
Light bullets propagation in saturating nonlinear optical medium....Pages 130-140
The dynamics of some quantum open systems with short-range nonlinearities....Pages 141-147
Global dynamics of fusion plasmas....Pages 148-150
The Jeans’ criterion and the gravitational instability....Pages 151-163
Recent progress in studies of one-dimensional gravitating systems....Pages 164-175
Fluctuations of the kinetic energy and stability of coherent structures in a one-dimensional gravitating gas: Numerical simulation....Pages 176-186
Structure formation in the one-dimensional gravitational gas....Pages 187-196
Interaction forces and space symmetry....Pages 197-210
Cellular automaton explosion models....Pages 211-226
Acoustic earth imaging by seismic migration....Pages 227-239
Integrability and alegbraic solutions for the 2-D lotka-Volterra system....Pages 243-254
Isochronous centers of cubic reversible systems....Pages 255-268
On the polynomial first integrals of the ( a, b, c ) Lotka-Volterra system....Pages 269-277
Local integrability for nilpotent critical point....Pages 278-287
Lie symmetries of generalized Ermakov systems....Pages 288-296
Hamilton’s principal function and integration by quadratures for an N -degree-of-freedom non - autonomous system given N invertible invariants in involution....Pages 297-303
Hierarchies of similarity symmetries and singularity analysis....Pages 304-312
Area preserving flows on compact connected surfaces....Pages 313-319
A lattice model for tropical rain forests....Pages 320-326
Periodic solutions and associated limit cycle for the generalised Chazy equation....Pages 327-335
A branch and bound algorithm for the flow-shop scheduling problem....Pages 336-339
On the linear third-order differential equation....Pages 340-347
Telecommunication network optimisation and statistical physics....Pages 348-360
A study of the analytical and local semiclassical Wigner distribution....Pages 361-370
Quantum transition and irreversibility....Pages 371-379
Pioneering in plasma simulation....Pages 383-392