Cellular Automata and Modeling of Complex Physical Systems
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Winter School, Les Houches, France, February 21-28, 1989
By: edited by Paul Manneville, Nino Boccara, Gérard Y. Vichniac, Roger Bidaux
Contributors: Boccara, Nino; Vichniac, Gérard Y.; Bidaux, Roger
Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics, 0930-8989 -- 46; Springer proceedings in physics -- 46.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9783642752599
Description: Cellular automata are fully discrete dynamical systems with dynamical variables defined at the nodes of a lattice and taking values in a finite set. Application of a local transition rule at each lattice site generates the dynamics. The interpretation of systems with a large number of degrees of freedom in terms of lattice gases has received considerable attention recently due to the many applications of this approach, e.g. for simulating fluid flows under nearly realistic conditions, for modeling complex microscopic natural phenomena such as diffusion-reaction or catalysis, and for analysis of pattern-forming systems. The discussion in this book covers aspects of cellular automata theory related to general problems of information theory and statistical physics, lattice gas theory, direct applications, problems arising in the modeling of microscopic physical processes, complex macroscopic behavior (mostly in connection with turbulence), and the design of special-purpose computers.