Progress in Partial Differential Equations: The Metz Surveys 3 (Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series)

Presents some recent advances in various important domains of partial differential equations and applied mathematics including harmonic maps, Ginzburg - Landau energy, liquid crystals, superconductivity, homogenization and oscillations, dynamical systems and inertial manifolds. These topics are now part of various areas of science and have experienced tremendous development during the last decades.