Dynamics of Self-Organized and Self-Assembled Structures

ISBN-13: 9780521883610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 344 str.

Rashmi C. Desai; Raymond Kapral

Opis

Describes pattern formation processes and how they can be modeled for graduate-level courses.

Recenzje

'The text is very well written and grips the attention of the reader. It is pitched at a level that will be understandable to graduate students, and much of it will be accessible to final year undergraduates. There are numerous figures and illustrations to illuminate the text, an extensive list of references, and a good index. In my opinion, it is an excellent book that can be recommended warmly both to libraries and for personal purchase by physicists and nonlinear dynamicists, especially hose working or teaching in the area of self-organisation.' Contemporary Physics

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Self-organized and self-assembled structures; 2. Order parameter, free energy and phase transitions; 3. Free energy functional; 4. Phase separation kinetics; 5. Langevin model for nonconserved order parameter systems; 6. Langevin model for conserved order parameter systems; 7. Interface dynamics at late times; 8. Domain growth and structure factor for model B; 9. Order parameter correlation function; 10. Vector order parameter and topological defects; 11. Liquid crystals; 12. Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner theory; 13. Systems with long-range repulsive interactions; 14. Kinetics of systems with competing interactions; 15. Competing interactions and defect dynamics; 16. Diffusively-rough interfaces; 17. Morphological instability in solid films; 18. Propagating chemical fronts; 19. Transverse front instabilities; 20. Cubic autocatalytic fronts; 21. Competing interactions and front repulsion; 22. Labyrinthine patterns in chemical systems; 23. Turing patterns; 24. Excitable media; 25. Oscillatory media and complex Ginzburg-Landau equation; 26. Spiral waves and defect turbulence; 27. Complex-oscillatory media; 28. Resonantly-forced oscillatory media; 29. Nonequilibrium patterns in laser-induced melting; 30. Reaction dynamics and phase segregation; 31. Active materials; References; Index.