Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures III

Front Matter....Pages i-1
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Fast Dynamo for Some Anosov Flows....Pages 5-11
How Horseshoes are Created....Pages 13-25
Fine Structure of Universal Cantor Sets....Pages 27-42
Hamiltonian Chaos in a Laser Damage Model....Pages 43-57
Periodic Modulation of a Logistic Oscillator....Pages 59-64
Quantum Spin Chains with Residual Entropy....Pages 65-73
Quantum Fluctuations and Linear Response Theory....Pages 75-80
Non-Commutative Large Deviations and Applications....Pages 81-85
Squeezing in the SU(1,1) Group....Pages 87-94
Full Scaling and Real-Space Renormalization....Pages 95-99
Sand Piles, Combinatorial Games and Cellular Automata....Pages 101-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Nonequilibrium Potentials in Spatially Extended Pattern Forming Systems....Pages 125-142
Passage Time Description of Dynamical Processes....Pages 143-155
Stochastic Processes Driven by Colored Noise: A Path Integral Point of View....Pages 157-169
Effect of Noise on a Hopf Bifurcation....Pages 171-176
Some Properties of Quasi Stationary Distributions in the Birth and Death Chains: A Dynamical Approach....Pages 177-187
Photon Noise Reduction in Light Sources....Pages 189-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Spatio-Temporal Properties of Centrifugal Instabilities....Pages 201-216
Shape of Stationary and Travelling Cells in the Printer’s Instability....Pages 217-223
Secondary Instability of Cellular Structures in Directional Solidification....Pages 225-231
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Velocity Field Structure and Semiquantitative Analysis of Tracer Dispersion in a Taylor-Vortex Flow of Wide Gap....Pages 233-238
Lasers as a Test Bench for Theories of Non-Equilibrium Structures....Pages 239-248
Mean Field Theory of Canonical Spinodal Instabilities....Pages 249-253
Periodic(Layered) Structures under Constraint....Pages 255-267
Transitions Between Patterns of Different Symmetries....Pages 269-282
Direct Simulation of Three-Dimensional Turbulence....Pages 283-289
Transition Between Different Symmetries in Convection....Pages 291-300
Shallow Surface Waves in a Convecting Fluid....Pages 301-305
An Exact Model of Resistive Convection in a Cylindrical Plasma....Pages 307-316
Energy Method in the Stability of Viscoelastic Fluid....Pages 317-320
Solitary Waves, Topological Defects, and their Interactions in Systems with Translational and Galilean Invariance....Pages 321-329
Dynamics of Nonlinear Schrödinger Defects in Three Dimensions....Pages 331-336
Dynamics of spirals defects in two dimensional extended systems....Pages 337-346
Fragmentation....Pages 347-355
Qualitative Theory of Defects in Non-Equilibrium Systems....Pages 357-363
Back Matter....Pages 365-374