This book provides an exhaustive introduction to the scope of main ideas and methods of the theory of infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems which has been rapidly developing in recent years. In the examples systems generated by nonlinear partial differential equations arising in the different problems of modern mechanics of continua are considered.
The main goal of the book is to help the reader to master the basic strategies used in the study of infinite-dimensional dissipative systems and to qualify him/her for an independent scientific research in the given branch. Experts in nonlinear dynamics will find many fundamental facts in the convenient and practical form in this book. The core of the book is composed of the courses given by the author at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics at Kharkov University during a number of years. This book contains a large number of exercises which make the main text more complete. It is sufficient to know the fundamentals of functional analysis and ordinary differential equations to read the book.