TheStudiesofsolitonsandcompleteintegrabilityofnonlinearwaveequationsandbifurcationsandchaosofdynamicalystemsaretwoveryactivefieldsinnonlinearscience.Becauseahomoclinicorbitofatravelingwavesystem(ODEs)correspondstoasolitarywavesolutionofanonlinearwaveequation(PDE).Thisfactprovidesanintersectionpointforabovetwostudyfields.Theaimofthisbookistogiveamoresystematicaccotmtforthebifurcationtheorymethodofdynamicalsystemstofindtravelingwavesolutionswithanemphasisonsingularwavesandunderstandtheirdynamicsforsomeclassesofthewellposednessofnonlinearevolutionequations.Readersshallfindhowstandardmethodsofthetheoryofdynamicalsystemsmaybeusedforthestudyoftravelingwavesolutionseventhecaseofsystemswithdiscontinuities.
Anyreadertryingtounderstandthesubjectofthisbookisonlyrequiredtoknowtheelementarytheoryofdynamicalsystemsandelementaryknowledgeofnonlinearwaveequations.Thisbookshouldbeusefulasaresearchreferenceforgraduatestudents,teachersandengineersindifferentstudyfields.