The purpose of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, upon which this book is based, was to bring together experimentalists and theorists from many different fields, ranging from applied mathematics to materials science, but unified by their intrigue with nonlinear phenomena, in search of a deeper understanding of patterns in complex systems. To meet this goal, the participants made the effort to build bridges across canonical disciplinary boundaries by sharing what they thought was significant and relevant in search of the “truly significant simplicity of the basic laws of nature embedded in the amazing complexity of natural phenomena.”Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Nonequilibrium Complex Systems is one of the most exciting and fastest-growing branches of physics that impacts fields as diverse as new technologies and processes, economics and biology. Virtually every structure in our world, including ourselves, can be considered the result of a long sequence of successive symmetry-breaking instabilities due to nonlinear processes under nonequilibrium conditions of a complex system. While a scientific description of the spontaneous appearance of patterns in nature was first made by Johannes Kepler (1611), it has only been during the past twenty years that pattern formation, epitomized by the beautiful snowflakes that Kepler studied, has emerged as a science. Concepts and methods resulting from this dynamic new field will surely influence future developments in many disciplines.Complex systems, as studied in this book, are a good first step toward a description of the variety of phenomena included under the rubric “physics of complex systems.” Even the simplest of those presented here, liquid crystals, is still complex, but provides hints of essential ingredients needed to forge a fundamental understanding of nonequilibrium, nonlinear processes in the large. Fluid dynamics and turbulence, interface motion during solidification, autocatalytic chemical reactions, and pattern formation in biological systems play similar roles in other systems far from equilibrium.
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Patricia E. Cladis is a research physicist at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She is well-known for her discoveries of nonlinear physical phenomena in liquid crystals such as the spontaneous breaking of boundary condition symmetry, the reentrant nematic, and “Closing the Turing Loop.” Her current research interests include pattern formation in liquid crystals, and she has made in-depth evaluations of the Flat Panel Display Technologies in Japan, the former Soviet Union, and the United States. Dr. Cladis is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow. Peter Palffy-Muhoray is a research physicist at the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University. He is associate director of the Liquid Crystal Institute, regional editor of Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals and of Liquid Crystals Today. Dr. Palffy-Muhoray is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Liquid Crystal Society.
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The book tries to give the overview of spatio-temporal pattern formation in complex systems through a collection of articles. The collection ranges from pure theoretical to pure experimental articles but in overall I find out the book as a useful reference on this new developing field of science. Moreover, I think it should be on a bookshelf of any scientist, who deals with complex spatio-temporal systems. Unfortunately the overall theoretical level of the book is very high with many articles dealing with very specific topics and therefore it may not be useful for beginners or under-graduate students. But, this was not the goal of this book, I suppose.
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Patterns of an almost periodic nature appear all over the place: the sand ripples on flat beaches and desert dunes, the buckles on a thin elastic shell under compression, the convection cells in a nematic liquid crystal stressed by an alternating electric field. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interfacial tension anisotropy, phase turbulence regimes, frequency misfit, phase winding solutions, azoic systems, directional viscous fingering, supersaturation theory, temperature control stage, electrohydrodynamic convection, normal dendrite, axisymmetric approach, charged spirals, drifting ring, block copolymer microstructure, defect turbulence, spacing law, frustrated drifts, phase space flux, chaotic fraction, chiral growth, spatiotemporal intermittency, late stage dynamics, dielectric regime, pheromone density, transient discarded Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Patterns of an almost periodic nature appear all over the place: the sand ripples on flat beaches and desert dunes, the buckles on a thin elastic shell under compression, the convection cells in a nematic liquid crystal stressed by an alternating electric field. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interfacial tension anisotropy, phase turbulence regimes, frequency misfit, phase winding solutions, azoic systems, directional viscous fingering, supersaturation theory, temperature control stage, electrohydrodynamic convection, normal dendrite, axisymmetric approach, charged spirals, drifting ring, block copolymer microstructure, defect turbulence, spacing law, frustrated drifts, phase space flux, chaotic fraction, chiral growth, spatiotemporal intermittency, late stage dynamics, dielectric regime, pheromone density, transient discarded Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sciences of Complexity, Color Plate, Fluid Mech, Cambridge University Press, World Scientific, Department of Physics, Academic Press, Electrohydrodynamic Instability, University of California, Ben Amar, Complex Dissipative Systems, Monte Carlo, Wavelength Selection, Bell Laboratories, Cornell University, Lehmann Effect, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Kyushu University, Low Temp, Ministry of Education, National Science Foundation, North Holland New!
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- The Physics of Liquid Crystals (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by P. G. de Gennes on 6 pages
- Liquid Crystals by S. Chandrasekhar F.R.S. on 5 pages
- Fractal Growth Phenomena by Tamas Vicsek on 5 pages
- The Theory of Polymer Dynamics (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by M. Doi on page 198, page 527, and page 669
- Dynamics of Ordering Processes in Condensed Matter by S. Komura on page 389, and page 409
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- The Economy As An Evolving Complex System II (Santa Fe Institute Series) by W. Brian Arthur in Front Matter
- Chaotic Transitions in Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamical Systems: Applications of Melnikov Processes in Engineering, Physics, and Neuroscience. by Emil Simiu in Back Matter
- Macromolecular Symposia 160: Nonlinear Dynamics in Polymer Science by Alexei R. Khokhlov on page 231
- The Economy As An Evolving Complex System (Santa Fe Institute Series) by Philip W. Anderson in Front Matter
- Thinking About Biology (Santa Fe Institute Series) by Wilfred Stein in Front Matter
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