New Trends in Pattern Formation in Active Nonlinear Media (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810221799)

This volume gives an overview of the recent ideas in studies of nonlinear waves and pattern formation in physical, chemical and biological active media.The papers deal with spatio-temporal growth of bacterial colonies, pattern formation and pattern recognition, pattern selection in Bénard-Marangoni convection, chemical turbulence and parametric resonance of vortices in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, oscillatory electrodissolution of metals, discretely-coupled electronic arrays, optical space-time complexity, spiral waves in nematic liquid crystals and several approaches to control chaos. The stability of hexagonal patterns with some asymmetries are analyzed, both for convective systems and Turing structures. Some other lectures are devoted to the important question of the topology of defects in superfluids, convective and reaction-diffusion systems.

Author: Vicente Perez-Villar
ISBN-10: 9810221797
ISBN-13: 9789810221799
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1996
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover