Lectures in Synergetics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810234959)

The world that surrounds us is a complex system of interacting objects. The versatility of the links and interactions brings about the infinite multiplicity of natural phenomena. "Synergetics" studies nonlinear nonequilibrium processes and self-organization phenomena, allowing for description, systematization and generalization of the phenomena that are described by the different branches of natural science: physics, chemistry, biology, as well as sociology and economics. This book introduces the reader to the exciting world of the nonlinear phenomena that are studied in synergetics. The book comprises treatises on mathematical methods for the study of nonequilibrium processes and presents versatile phenomena studied in synergetics: multistability, self-oscillation, spatial stratification, autowaves, kinetic phase transitions and chaos. Examples of self-organization in physics, chemistry, biology covered in this volume include laser generation, optical bistability, self-oscillations in semiconductors and chemical reactions, spatial stratification in hydrodynamics and in crystals, auto-waves in semiconductors and nerve fibers and many other phenomena. The majority of the phenomena considered occur in physics but the book is also useful for chemists and biologists.

Author: Igor Yu Goliney,Volodymyr Sugakov
ISBN-10: 9810234953
ISBN-13: 9789810234959
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 10/09/1998
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.48w x 0.68d