| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-323) and index. |
| Contents |
Self-organized and self-assembled structures -- Order parameter, free energy and phase transitions -- Free energy functional -- Phase separation kinetics -- Langevin model for nonconserved order parameter systems -- Langevin model for conserved order parameter systems -- Interface dynamics at late times -- Domain growth and structure factor for model B -- Order parameter correlation function -- Vector order parameter and topological defects -- Liquid crystals -- Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner theory -- Systems with long-range repulsive interactions -- Kinetics of systems with competing interactions -- Competing interactions and defect dynamics -- Diffusively rough interfaces -- Morphological instability in solid films -- Propagating chemical fronts -- Transverse front instabilities -- Cubic autocatalytic fronts -- Competing interactions and front repulsion -- Labyrinthine patterns in chemical systems -- Turing patterns -- Excitable media -- Oscillatory media and complex Ginzburg-Landau equation -- Spiral waves and defect turbulence -- Complex-oscillatory media -- Resonantly-forced oscillatory media -- Nonequilibrium patterns in laser-induced melting -- Reaction dynamics and phase segregation -- Active materials. |
| Summary |
Physical and biological systems driven out of equilibrium may spontaneously evolve to form spatial structures. In some systems molecular constituents may self-assemble to produce complex ordered structures. This book describes how such pattern formation processes occur and how they can be modeled. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pattern formation (Physical sciences)
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Pattern formation (Physical sciences) |
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Phase rule and equilibrium.
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Phase rule and equilibrium. |
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Dynamics.
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Dynamics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kapral, Raymond.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Desai, Rashmi C. Dynamics of self-organized and self-assembled structures. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521883610 (DLC) 2008045219 (OCoLC)261176779 |
| ISBN |
9780511719660 (electronic book) |
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0511719663 (electronic book) |
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9780521883610 (hardback) |
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052188361X (hardback) |
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9780511515804 (ebook) |
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0511515804 (ebook) |
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9780511609725 |
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0511609728 |
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0511718756 |
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9780511718755 |
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