Download or read book Dissipative Solitons: From Optics to Biology and Medicine written by Nail Akhmediev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissipative soliton concept is a fundamental extension of the concept of solitons in conservative and integrable systems. It includes ideas from three major sources, namely standard soliton theory developed since the 1960s; nonlinear dynamics theory; and Prigogine's ideas of systems far from equilibrium. These three sources also correspond to the three component parts of this novel paradigm. This book explains the above principles in detail and gives the reader various examples.