Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Nonequilibrium Complex Systems
Subtitle: NATO Advanced Research Workshop (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings)
Contributors: P. E. Cladis (Editor); P. Palffy-Muhoray (Editor)
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
Published: December 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 679
ISBN-13: 9780201409840
First sentence: Patterns of an almost periodic nature appear all over the place: the sand ripples on flat beaches and desert dunes, the buckles on a thin elastic shell under compression, the convection cells in a nematic liquid crystal stressed by an alternating electric field.