A01=Alexander B Ezersky
A01=Mikhail I Rabinovich
A01=Patrick D Weidman
Author_Alexander B Ezersky
Author_Mikhail I Rabinovich
Author_Patrick D Weidman
Biological Patterns
Capillary Waves
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Category=PH
Chaotic Dynamics
Convection
Defects
Disordered Patterns
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Quasicrystals
Spirals
Synchronization
Turbulence
Product details
- ISBN 9789810240554
- Publication Date: 02 Nov 2000
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
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Spirals, vortices, crystalline lattices, and other attractive patterns are prevalent in Nature. How do such beautiful patterns appear from the initial chaos? What universal dynamical rules are responsible for their formation? What is the dynamical origin of spatial disorder in nonequilibrium media? Based on the many visual experiments in physics, hydrodynamics, chemistry, and biology, this invaluable book answers those and related intriguing questions. The mathematical models presented for the dynamical theory of pattern formation are nonlinear partial differential equations. The corresponding theory is not so accessible to a wide audience. Consequently, the authors have made every attempt to synthesize long and complex mathematical calculations to exhibit the underlying physics. The book will be useful for final year undergraduates, but is primarily aimed at graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and others interested in the puzzling phenomena of pattern formation.
