A Perspective Look at Nonlinear Media: From Physics to Biology and Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9783540639954 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 376 str.

Jürgen Parisi;Stefan C. Muller;Walter Zimmermann

Opis

A study of nonlinear media, this work covers: quantum chaos in Rydberg atoms; crystallization of electrons and holes; natural patterns in nonequilibrium systems; linear aspects of the Faraday instability; and nonlinear flow behaviour and shear-induced structure of fluids.

Spis treści

Quantum chaos in Rydberg atoms.- Crystallization of electrons and holes.- Natural patterns in nonequilibrium systems.- Linear aspects of the Faraday instability.- On curved cellular flames.- Nonlinear flow behavior and shear-induced structure of fluids.- Experimental study of horizontally shaken granular matter — The swelling effect.- On relaxational granular compaction.- From microscopic to macroscopic traffic models.- The modelling concept of sociodynamics.- The morphogenesis of dictyostelium discoideum — Pattern formation in a biological excitable system.- Path optimization in chemical and biological systems on the basis of excitation waves.- BSE viewed dynamically: A possible early cure based on passive immunization against PrPSc.- Molecular semiotic structures in the cellular immune system: Key to dynamics and spatial patterning?.- Molecular evolutionary dynamics.- The retinal spreading depression: A model for nonlinear behavior of the brain.- An analytically solvable model of collective excitation patterns in cortical tissue.- Interaction of meandering spiral waves in active media.- Spatiotemporal patterns in a passivating electrochemical system.- Instabilities of pollutant concentrations in the troposphere due to chemical reactions.- Hydrodynamic singularities.- Disordered structures analyzed by the theory of Markov processes.- Transition to turbulence in shear flows.- Deformation of charge density waves in quasi-one-dimensional semiconductors visualized by scanning electron microscopy.- Probing nonlinear carrier transport in semi- and superconductors via low-temperature scanning laser microscopy.- Nonlinear spatio-temporal emission dynamics of broad area laser diodes.- Gravitational slowing down of clocks implies proportional size increase.

O autorze

Professor Dr. Walter Zimmermann ist Vizepräsident des Landgerichts Passau a.D. und Honorarprofessor für Bürgerliches Recht und Zivilprozessrecht an der Universität Regensburg.