Dynamics of Spatio-Temporal Cellular Structures (eBook, PDF)

Henri Bénard Centenary Review
Redaktion: Mutabazi, Innocent; Guyon, Etienne; Wesfreid, Jose Eduardo

• Format: PDF

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780387251110
• Artikelnr.: 43732698

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.