Nonequilibrium Cooperative Phenomena in Physics and Related Fields
This volume contains the lectures and invited seminars pre sented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on NON-EQUILIBRIUM COOPERATIVE PHENOMENA IN PHYSICS AND RELATED FIELDS that was held at EL ESCORIAL (MADRID), SPAIN, on August 1-11, 1983. Most nonlinear problems in dissipative systems, i . e . ,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1984, 1984
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1984 |
| Series: | NATO Science Series B:, Physics
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Electrothermal instabilities in dielectric liquids
- Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in nematic with homeotropic boundaries
- E. Convection Diffusion and Reaction
- Gyrotactic buoyant convection and spontaneous pattern formation in algal cell cultures
- Experimental investigations of precipitation patterns
- F. Combustion
- Optical diagnosis in flows — Applications — Experiments in Combustion
- Theory of gaseous combustion
- Bifurcation in Heterogeneous Combustion
- G. Instabilities and Nonlinear Phenomena in Solids
- Thermoelasticity and mechanical instabilities
- Non-Equilibrium effects seen in molecular dynamics calculations of Shock waves in Solids
- H. Deterministic (Continuous and Discrete) Mathematics of Nonlinear Problems
- Current topics in reaction-diffusion systems
- Discrete nonlinear dynamics
- Deterministic diffusion — A quality ofChaos
- I. Stochastic Description of Non Linear Problems
- Stochastic space-time problems
- Stochastic theory of transition phenomena in nonequilibrium systems
- Non-equilibrium systems with random control paramenters
- Non-white noise triggered oscillations in nonlinear chemical process
- About some simple Fokker-Planck models
- Dynamics of symmetry breaking: phase coherence in finite and random system
- Pictures of participants
- Participants
- Author Index
- A. Introduction: Synergetics and Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions
- Synergetics
- Phase transition analogies: magnets, lasers and fluid flows
- B. Lasers and Quantum Optics
- Collective phenomena in Quantum Optics
- Optical Bistability and related topics
- Laser with intracavity absorber: Q-switching and multistable nonlinear oscillations and chaos
- Non-linear operation of CO2 lasers with intracavity saturable absorbers
- Structurally stable bifurcations in optical bistability
- C. Action of Intense Laser Fields
- Allowed nuclear beta decay in an intense laser field
- D. Instabilities and Convection in Liquids and Liquid Crystals
- Thermohydrodynamic instabilities: Buoyancy-thermocapillary convection
- Thermohydrodynamic instability in nematic liquid crystals: a summary of arguments and conditions for some simple geometries
- Neutron scattering studies of phase transitions in equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems