Innocent Mutabazi / Jose Eduardo Wesfreid / Etienne Guyon (eds.)

Dynamics of Spatio-Temporal Cellular Structures

Henri Bénard Centenary Review
Ed. by Innocent Mutabazi, J. E. Wesfreid, Etienne Guyon et al.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Springer Tracts in Modern Physics Vol.207
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• and and edition
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 159mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780387400983
• ISBN-10: 0387400982
• Artikelnr.: 14177887

Autorenporträt

Innocent Mutabazi, Le Havre, France / Jose Eduardo Wesfreid, Paris, France / Etienne Guyon, Paris, France

Inhaltsangabe

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.