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Spatio-Temporal Pattern Formation : With Examples from Physics, Chemistry, and Materials Science /

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This book provides an interdisciplinary presentation of the current knowledge of pattern formation in complex system, with sufficiently many details, tools, and concrete examples to be useful for the graduate student or scientist entering this area of research.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walgraef, D. (Daniel)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1997.
Series:Partially ordered systems.
Subjects:
Physics.
Physical organic chemistry.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Instabilities and Patterns in Hydrodynamical Systems
  • Instabilities and Patterns in Reaction-Diffusion Systems
  • Generic Aspects of Pattern Forming Instabilities
  • The Hopf Bifurcation and Related Spatio-Temporal Patterns
  • The Turning Instability and Associated Spatial Structures
  • Defects and Defect Bifurcations
  • The Effect of External Fields
  • Fronts
  • Pattern Formation: Generic vs. Non Generic Aspects
  • Microstructures in Irradiated Materials
  • Plastic Instabilities.