Modelling the Dynamics of Biological Systems: Nonlinear Phenomena and Pattern Formation

✍ Scribed by Erik Mosekilde, Ole G. Mouritsen (auth.), Professor Dr. Erik Mosekilde, Professor Dr. Ole G. Mouritsen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Series: Springer Series in Synergetics 65
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The development of a proper theoretical description of the living world today poses one of the most significant challenges to science. In this interdisciplinary work, leading scientists in biology, physics, computer science and mathematics have joinded forces to present and tackle some of the open problems. They demonstrate that the concepts and methods of the newly developed fields of nonlinear dynamics and complex systems theory, combined with irreversible thermodynamics and far-from-equilibrium statistical mechanics, enable us to make progress with many of these problems. The book will interest all researchers and students involved in seeking an integrative approach to the frontiers of biological science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Spiral Waves in Bounded Excitable Media....Pages 7-22
Dynamics of Oscillatory Chemical Systems....Pages 23-47
Localized Turing and Turing-Hopf Patterns....Pages 48-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Domains and Patterns in Biological Membranes....Pages 77-100
Modelling Pattern Formation on Primate Visual Cortex....Pages 101-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Channel Function and Channel-Lipid Bilayer Interactions....Pages 131-155
Dynamics of Nucleic Acids and Nucleic Acid:Protein Complexes....Pages 156-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Models of Renal Blood Flow Autoregulation....Pages 167-185
Dynamics of Bone Remodelling....Pages 186-204
Modelling Heart Rate Variability Due to Respiration and Baroreflex....Pages 205-229
A Dynamical Approach to Normal and Parkinsonian Tremor....Pages 230-248
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Dynamics of Complex Ecologies....Pages 251-268
A Self-Organized Critical Model for Evolution....Pages 269-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-297

✦ Subjects

Biophysics and Biological Physics;Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics;Computer Appl. in Life Sciences