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Fractals have been shown to represent the common aspects of many complex processes occurring in an unusually diverse range of fields, including physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, earth sciences and technology. Among other things, a better understanding of growth phenomena, turbulence, iterative functions, colloidal aggregation, biological pattern formation and inhomogeneous materials has emerged through the application of such concepts as scale invariance, self-affinity and multifractality. This volume presents results of the application of fractals to natural science.

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Author:   M Matsushita (Chuo Univ, Japan) ,  Michael F Shlesinger (Office Of Naval Research, Usa) ,  Tamas Vicsek (Eotvos Univ, Hungary) ,  M. Matsushita (Chuo University, Japan)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN:  

9789810216245

ISBN 10:   9810216246
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   01 October 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Power Law Distribution of River Basin Sizes (H Takayasu); The Fixed Scale Transformation: Status and Perspective (L Pietronereo); Structures Generated by Model Nonlinear Hamiltonians Based on Ocean Waves (J Willemsen); Self-Similar Colony Morphogenesis by Bacteria as the Experimental Model of Fractal Growth by a Cell Population (T Matsuyama et al); Vibrational Problem of Fractal Networks (T Nakayama); Fractal Tectonics and Erosion (D L Turcotte); Examples of Fractals in Soil Mechanics (H J Herrmann et al); Granular Cocktail Rotated and Shaken (G Baumann et al); Critical Exponents of Elasticity in a Continuum Percolation System (K Maruyama et al); Statistics of Fracture Surfaces (J Planes et al); Fractal Analyses of Anisotropic Fracture Surfaces (B L Cox & J S Y Wang); Effect of High Magnetic Fields on Fractal Growth of Silver Metal-Forest (S Okubo et al).

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