Spatio-Temporal Pattern Formation
Subtitle: With Examples from Physics, Chemistry, and Materials Science
By: by Daniel Walgraef
Series: Partially Ordered Systems; Partially ordered systems
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781461273110; 9781461218500
Subjects: Physical organic chemistry; Physics
Description: 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.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: Instabilities and Patterns in Hydrodynamical Systems; title: Instabilities and Patterns in Reaction-Diffusion Systems; title: Generic Aspects of Pattern Forming Instabilities; title: The Hopf Bifurcation and Related Spatio-Temporal Patterns; title: The Turning Instability and Associated Spatial Structures; title: Defects and Defect Bifurcations; title: The Effect of External Fields; title: Fronts; title: Pattern Formation: Generic vs. Non Generic Aspects; title: Microstructures in Irradiated Materials; title: Plastic Instabilities.