Cellular Automata and Modeling of Complex Physical Systems Proceedings of the Winter School, Les Houches, France, February 21-28, 1989

Cellular automata are fully discrete dynamical systems with dynamical variables defined at the nodes of a lattice and taking values in a finite set. Application of a local transition rule at each lattice site generates the dynamics. The interpretation of systems with a large number of degrees of freedom in terms of lattice gases has received considerable attention recently due to the many applications of this approach, e.g. for simulating fluid flows under nearly realistic conditions, for modeling complex microscopic natural phenomena such as diffusion-reaction or catalysis, and for analysis of pattern-forming systems. The discussion in this book covers aspects of cellular automata theory related to general problems of information theory and statistical physics, lattice gas theory, direct applications, problems arising in the modeling of microscopic physical processes, complex macroscopic behavior (mostly in connection with turbulence), and the design of special-purpose computers.

About the author

Dr. Nino Boccara is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie de la Ville de Paris, and Former Director of Research in Theoretical Physics at the CNRS.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gerard Y Vichniac et al (Editor), Nin Boccara (Editor), Roger Bidaux (Editor), Gerard Y. Vichniac (Editor), Paul Manneville (Editor), Nino Boccara (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 05.12.2012
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Thermodynamics
• EAN: 9783642752612
• ISBN: 978-3-642-75261-2
• Pages: 319
• Illustrations: IX, 319 p.
• Height (packing): 24.2 cm
• Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics > .46; Springer Proceedings in Physics > 46