Dynamics of Spatio-temporal Cellular Structures - Henri Benard Centenary Review

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.

List of contents

The context of Bénard convection and nonlinear science.- Scientific biography of Henri Bénard (1874-1939).- Rayleigh-Bénard convection, thirty years of experimental, theoretical and modeling work.- Experiments with Rayleigh-Bénard convection.- Rayleigh-Bénard convection as a model of nonlinear system : a personal view.- Bénard convection and geophysical applications.- Bénard layers, overstability and waves.- Secondary instabilities in surface-tension - driven Bénard-Marangoni convection.- Hydrothermal waves in a disk of fluid.- Wakes Instabilities behind bluff bodies.- Spatial inhomogeneities of hydrodynamic instabilities from Rayleigh-Bénard convection to Bérnard-von Karman street.- Patterns and Chaotic Dynamics in Faraday Surface Waves.- The Taylor-Couette flow : the hydrodynamic twin of Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jos Eduardo Wesfreid (Editor), Jose Eduardo Wesfreid (Editor), Etienne Guyon (Editor), Innocent Mutabari (Editor), Innocent Mutabazi (Editor), Innoncent Mutabazi (Editor), J. E. Wesfreid (Editor), Jose E. Wesfreid (Editor), Jose Eduardo Wesfreid (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9780387400983
• ISBN: 978-0-387-40098-3
• No. of pages: 254
• Weight: 490 g
• Illustrations: 115 SW-Abb., X, 249 p. 115 illus.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics; Springer Tracts in Modern Phys; Springer Tracts in Modern Phys; Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Biochemistry, biophysics; C, Classical mechanics, Complex systems, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Classical and Continuum Physics, Physics and Astronomy, Continuum physics, Dynamical systems, Dynamics & statics, Statistical physics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems