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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Nonlinear Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5833.
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Nonlinear Science

Panel on Mathematics (Nonlinear Science and the Navy)

Naval Studies Board

Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1997

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Nonlinear Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5833.
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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for this report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved by a Report Review Committee consisting of members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Nonlinear Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5833.
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Panel on Mathematics (Nonlinear Science and the Navy)

David K. Campbell,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Chair

Mitchell J. Feigenbaum,

Rockefeller University

Michael Gorman,

University of Houston

John Guckenheimer,

Cornell University

Bernardo A. Huberman,

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Jerome V. Moloney,

University of Arizona

Dale W. Schaefer,

Sandia National Laboratories

Katapalli R. Sreenivasan,

Yale University

Robert M. Westervelt,

Harvard University

Navy Liaison Representatives

Paul G. Blatch,

Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (N911T1)

Ronald N. Kostoff,

Office of Naval Research

Consultants

Sidney G. Reed, Jr.

James G. Wilson

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Naval Studies Board

David R. Heebner,

Science Applications International Corporation (retired),

Chair

George M. Whitesides,

Harvard University,

Vice Chair

Albert J. Baciocco, Jr.,

The Baciocco Group, Inc.

Alan Berman,

Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University

Norman E. Betaque,

Logistics Management Institute

Norval L. Broome,

Mitre Corporation

Gerald A. Cann,

Raytheon Company

Seymour J. Deitchman,

Chevy Chase, Maryland,

Special Advisor

Anthony J. DeMaria,

DeMaria ElectroOptics Systems, Inc.

John F. Egan,

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Robert Hummel,

Courant Institute of Mathematics, New York University

David W. McCall,

Far Hills, New Jersey

Robert J. Murray,

Center for Naval Analyses

Robert B. Oakley,

National Defense University

William J. Phillips,

Northstar Associates, Inc.

Mara G. Prentiss,

Jefferson Laboratory, Harvard University

Herbert Rabin,

University of Maryland

Julie JCH Ryan,

Booz, Allen and Hamilton

Harrison Shull,

Monterey, California

Keith A. Smith,

Vienna, Virginia

Robert C. Spindel,

Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington

David L. Stanford,

Science Applications International Corporation

H. Gregory Tornatore,

Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University

J. Pace VanDevender,

Prosperity Institute

Vincent Vitto,

Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bruce Wald,

Arlington Education Consultants

Navy Liaison Representatives

Paul G. Blatch,

Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (N911T1)

Ronald N. Kostoff,

Office of Naval Research

Ronald D. Taylor, Director

Peter W. Rooney, Program Officer

Susan G. Campbell, Administrative Assistant

Mary (Dixie) Gordon, Information Officer

Christopher A. Hanna, Project Assistant

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Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications

Robert J. Hermann,

United Technologies Corporation,

Co-Chair

W. Carl Lineberger,

University of Colorado,

Co-Chair

Peter M. Banks,

Environmental Research Institute of Michigan

Lawrence D. Brown,

University of Pennsylvania

Ronald G. Douglas,

Texas A&M University

John E. Estes,

University of California at Santa Barbara

L. Louis Hegedus,

Elf Atochem North America, Inc.

John E. Hopcroft,

Cornell University

Rhonda J. Hughes,

Bryn Mawr College

Shirley A. Jackson,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Kenneth H. Keller,

University of Minnesota

Kenneth I. Kellermann,

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Margaret G. Kivelson,

University of California at Los Angeles

Daniel Kleppner,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Kreick,

Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company

Marsha I. Lester,

University of Pennsylvania

Thomas A. Prince,

California Institute of Technology

Nicholas P. Samios,

Brookhaven National Laboratory

L.E. Scriven,

University of Minnesota

Shmuel Winograd,

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Charles A. Zraket,

Mitre Corporation (retired)

Norman Metzger, Executive Director

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Preface

To assist with its long-term strategic planning, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) requested that the Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Research Council (NRC) form a panel on nonlinear science. NRL's request for independent advice acknowledged the importance of this area of science to a broad range of applications. Specifically, the topic of nonlinear dynamics has generated a great deal of interest during the past several years. A number of opportunities appear to be presented by appropriately mining the basic research developments that have been the subject of recent intense activity. This field promises impact in diverse areas such as fluid turbulence, plasma behavior, optical bistability, molecular dynamics, semiconducting and superconducting devices, magnetic properties, particle aggregation, crystal growth, and even possibly quantum mechanics.

In response to NRL's request, the Panel on Mathematics (Nonlinear Science and the Navy) was formed and asked to examine the following areas and consider the following questions:

  1. Chaos has become a popular subject for examination in a number of research areas. A number of important principles have been discovered over the past 10 years in this active field. Principles leading to a prediction of bifurcation appear to be developing. Inherently, if one can ascribe some degree of order to what was previously thought to be noise, the extraction of signals from noisy background could be enhanced. Chaotic behavior should be useful in predicting power spectral densities. This could lead to the development of nonlinear algorithms for low signal-to-noise signal processing systems. With the recent advances in this field, which areas are most likely to lead to applications? Where are the most likely opportunities (scientific or procedural) for demonstrating the utility of the elegant mathematics that has been developed?
  2. Fractals represent a relatively new method of representing signals, images, and information that appears to have a regularity in an otherwise irregular pattern. Can matched filters be designed for fractal noise that will be able to extract signals that might otherwise go undetected?
  3. Although of considerable interest scientifically and importance technologically, signal processing is in fact only one of the areas in which recent developments in nonlinear dynamics offer promise for significant improvements in naval technologies. Accordingly, after the panel's initial meeting and discussions with NRL Director of Research Timothy Coffey, the above task was expanded to include a broader range of emerging topics of nonlinear science: the scope of the deliberations should range from general concepts to specific potential applications, and the panel's goal should be to identify areas in which the combination of the Navy's needs, NRL capabilities, and recent developments in the field could together increase the potential for impact on the Navy of the future. It is important to note that this report does not claim to be comprehensive in this regard. While the panel did examine the thrust of NRL's efforts in nonlinear science, it did not attempt a comprehensive survey of the laboratory's expertise, staff, or organizational structure. The panel did not limit its discussion to those areas of nonlinear science that it judged to be within the reach of NRL's current programs, but it did limit its specific recommendations to those areas.

    The panel held four meetings during the course of the study—on March 23-24, May 8-9, and November 13-14, 1992, in Washington, D.C. (at NRL and at the facilities of the National Research Council) and on December 10-11, 1993, in Urbana, Illinois. In addition, panel members interacted regularly via electronic mail and telephone. Despite the fact that several years have passed since its last formal meeting, the panel believes that the conclusions and recommendations contained in this report will still be of value to the NRL.

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