Dynamics of Spatio-Temporal Cellular Structures: Henri Bénard Centenary Review
✍ Scribed by Innocent Mutabazi, José Eduardo Wesfreid, Etienne Guyon (auth.), Innocent Mutabazi, José Eduardo Wesfreid, Etienne Guyon (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 248
- Series
- Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 207
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
The impact of Benard's discovery on 20th century physics is crucial to any modern research area such as fluid dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics, just to name a few. This centenary review shows the broad scope and development including modern applications, edited and written by experts in the field.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Context of Bénard Scientific Work and Nonlinear Science....Pages 3-8
Scientific Biography of Henri Bénard (1874–1939)....Pages 9-37
Front Matter....Pages 40-40
Rayleigh-Bénard Convection: Thirty Years of Experimental, Theoretical, and Modeling Work....Pages 41-65
Experiments with Rayleigh-Bénard Convection....Pages 67-94
Rayleigh-Bénard Convection as a Model of a Nonlinear System: A Personal View....Pages 95-102
Bénard Convection and Geophysical Applications....Pages 103-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Bénard Layers, Overstability, and Waves....Pages 129-145
Hydrothermal Waves in a Disk of Fluid....Pages 147-161
Secondary Instabilities in Surface-Tension-Driven Bénard-Marangoni Convection....Pages 163-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Wake Instabilities Behind Bluff Bodies....Pages 179-202
Spatial Inhomogeneities of Hydrodynamic Instabilities....Pages 203-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Patterns and Chaotic Dynamics in Faraday Surface Waves....Pages 213-224
The Taylor-Couette Flow: The Hydrodynamic Twin of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection....Pages 225-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-249
✦ Subjects
Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity;Classical Continuum Physics
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