Rashmi C. Desai, Raymond Kapral

Dynamics of Self-Organized and Self-Assembled Structures

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 774g
• ISBN-13: 9780521883610
• ISBN-10: 052188361X
• Artikelnr.: 26368031

Autorenporträt

Rashmi C. Desai is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

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.