Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures IX

ISBN-13: 9789401037600 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 415 str.

Orazio Descalzi; Javier Martinez; Sergio Rica

Opis

This volume contains a selection of lectures and seminars given at the Ninth International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures which took place in Vina del Mar, Chile, in December 2001.
This book consists of two parts, the first one has three lectures written by Professors H.R. Brand, M. Moreau and L.S. Tuckerman. H.R. Brand gives an overview about reorientation and undulation instabilities in liquid crystals, M. Moreau presents recent results on biased tracer diffusion in lattice gases, finally, L.S. Tuckerman summarizes some numerical methods used in bifurcation problems.
The second part consists of a collection of selected seminars which cover different topics in nonlinear physics, from an experimental, numerical and theoretical point of view.
This book should appeal to mathematicians, physicists and engineers interested in dynamical systems, statistical mechanics, and nonequilibrium systems."

Spis treści

I. Courses.- Reorientation and Undulation Instabilities in Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystalline Elastomers..- Biased Tracer Diffusion in Hard-Core Lattice Gases: Some Notes on the Validity of the Einstein Relation..- Numerical Methods for Bifurcation Problems..- II. Articles.- Falkner-Skan approximation for gradually variable flows..- Critical dynamics in reversible forced pendulum chains..- Time Asymmetry as Universe Asymmetry..- Front Dynamics in a Liquid Crystal Light Valve with Feedback..- Bifurcation due rotation in radiation driven wind from hot stars..- An analytical approach to nucleation solutions and pulses in the one-dimensional real and complex Ginzburg-Landau equations..- Optimization of Brownian transport in a system of globally coupled phase oscillators by means of colored noise..- Resonant behavior of the wake of a flat plate: Hot wire and sound scattering measurements..- Global Magnitude Fluctuation Phenomena..- Propagation of acoustic waves in clastic materials with randomly distributed dislocations..- Convection in Polymeric Solutions..- Noise-induced Resonance in Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Feedback..- On the Effect of Time Correlated Noise and Periodic Forcing on a Neuronal System..- Non-Riemannian Geometry of a Continuous-Spin Infinite Particle Systems and their Non-Interaction Representation..- Eigenvalue solution for the self similar Birkhoff-Rott equation..- A measure of self-organization in neural activity..- Thermodynamic Field Theory (An Approach to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes)..- van der Waals-like transition in fluidized granular matter: hydrodynamic description..- Binary fluid convection as a 2 × 2 matrix problem..- Singularity formation in vortex sheets and interfaces..- On the Dynamics of Nanostructures Formation during Thin Film Growth..- Author Index.