Overview

This volume contains a selection of the lectures given at the Fifth International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures, held in Santiago, Chile, in December 1993. The following general subjects are covered: instabilities and pattern formation, stochastic effects in nonlinear systems, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and granular matter. Review articles on transitions between spatio-temporal patterns and nonlinear wave equations are also included. The book should appeal to physicists and mathematicians working in the areas of nonequilibrium systems, dynamical systems, pattern formation and partial differential equations. Chemists and biologists interested in self-organization and statistical mechanics should also be interested, as well as engineers working in fluid mechanics and materials science.

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Author:   E. Tirapegui ,  W. Zeller
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1996 ed.
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.819kg
ISBN:  

9780792339922

ISBN 10:   0792339924
Pages:   369
Publication Date:   31 May 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface.- Preface.- I. Review Articles.- Transitions between Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Non Equilibrium Systems.- Galilean and Relativistic Nonlinear Wave Equations: An Hydrodynamical Tool?.- II. Instabilities and Pattern Formation.- Chaotically Induced Defect Diffusion.- Pattern Formation and Phase Turbulence in the Transverse Section of Lasers.- Long Wavelength Oscillatory Instability in Binary Fluids.- Multiple Front Propagation in a Potential Non-Gradient System.- Pattern Selection and Diffusive Instability.- Monotonic Fronts of the Reaction-Diffusion Equation in one Space Dimension.- Poiseuille Flux of Hard Particles: Theory and Simulations.- Stationary Convection due to Resistivity and Viscosity in a Cylindrical Plasma with a Free Boundary.- Ginzburg-Landau Equations for Oscillatory Convection in Oldroyd-B Fluids.- Laser Model with Periodic External Injected Signal and Noise: Small Net Gain Limit.- Flow Transitions in Rayleigh-Benard Convection: Influence of Heating Rate.- III. Stochastic Effects.- Noise Induced Phase Transitions.- Competitive Coexistence in Biological Systems: Exact Analytical Results through a Quantum Mechanical Analogy.- Effects of Disorder on Reaction-Diffusion Systems: An Analytical Approach.- Concerning the Noise Strength in Periodically driven Pattern Convection.- Quasi-Stationary Distribution and Gibbs Measure of Expanding Systems.- Detailed Balance and Reversed Process for Macroscopic Systems.- IV. Statistical Mechanics and Applications.- Substancial Irreversibility in Quantum Cosmology.- Generalized Spectral Decompositions for a Class of One-Dimensional Chaotic Maps.- Two-Photon Micromaser: From Trapping to Ideal Sqeezed States.- Thermodynamic Instabilities in Quantum Liquids.- Construction of Hamiltonian Structures for Dynamical Systems from Scratch.- V. Granular Matter.- A Visit of Granular Matter.- A Dissipative Model for Parametric Waves in Granular Materials.- Simple Models for Fragmentation.- VI. Short Communications.- Chaos and Three-Frequency Resonances in a Dynamical System.- Shape Transition in a Two-Dimension System of Bubbles.- Nonlinear Behavior and Trapped Dynamics in the Micromaser.- Analytical Study of the Codimension Two Bifurcations of the New Lorenz System.- A New Basis of Wavelets for Studying Three Periodic Attractors.- Trehalose in Solution and Its Interaction with Water and Biological Structures. Molecular Dynamics Simulation.

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