Propagation in Systems Far from Equilibrium: Proceedings of the Workshop, Les Houches, France, March 10–18, 1987

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Propagation in Systems Far from Equilibrium: Introduction and Overview....Pages 2-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Dendritic Crystal Growth: Recent Progress and Current Issues....Pages 14-27
Velocity Selection for Needle Crystals in the 2-D One-Sided Model....Pages 28-34
The Problem of Directional Solidification Revisited....Pages 35-43
Cellular Instabilities in Directional Solidification....Pages 44-49
Cellular and Dendritic Fronts in Directional Solidification: Experiments by the Light of Pattern Selection....Pages 50-62
On the Analogy of Anomalous Viscous Fingers with Crystalline Dendrites....Pages 63-77
Diffuse Interfaces....Pages 78-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Chemical Waves and Periodic Precipitation Processes....Pages 90-99
Wave Propagation in Chemical Nonequilibrium Systems: New Experimental Results....Pages 100-111
Spatio-Temporal Phase Patterns Near a Hopf Bifurcation in 2D Systems....Pages 112-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
The Dynamics of Patterns: A Survey....Pages 122-155
Phase Turbulence and Mean Flow Effects in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection....Pages 156-163
Defects in Waves....Pages 164-175
Propagative Structures and Localization in the Convection of a Liquid Crystal....Pages 176-184
Dynamics of Codimension-One Defects....Pages 185-193
Localized Instabilites and Nucleation of Dislocations in Convective Rolls....Pages 194-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Phase Dynamics — A Review and a Perspective....Pages 206-224
Phase Diffusion in a Ramped Convection Channel....Pages 225-231
Pattern Selection in the Bénard-Marangoni Instability....Pages 232-239
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Pattern Selection in Convective Instabilities with Axial Anisotropy....Pages 240-249
Pattern Selection in Salt Fingers....Pages 250-257
Model Systems for Long-Scale Convection....Pages 258-264
The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation: A Progress Report....Pages 265-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Two-Frequency States at the Onset of Convection in Binary Fluid Mixtures....Pages 282-291
A Galerkin Approximation for Convection in Binary Mixtures with Realistic Concentration Boundary Conditions....Pages 292-304
Convection in Binary Mixtures....Pages 305-306
Convection in Viscoelastic Fluids....Pages 307-314
An Overview of the Flow Regimes in a Circular Couette System....Pages 315-324
New Bifurcations in a Partially Filled, Horizontal, Rotating Cylinder....Pages 325-330
New Patterns in the Flow Between Two Horizontal Coaxial Rotating Cylinders with Partially Filled Gap....Pages 331-337
Strong Resonance in Forced Oscillatory Convection....Pages 338-338
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
On the Absolute/Convective Nature of Primary and Secondary Instabilities....Pages 340-353
The Bénard-Von Kármán Instability in Laminar Regimes....Pages 354-359
Nonlinear Limit-Cycle Solutions - A Rational Method for Transition Prediction in Shear Flows?....Pages 360-368
Questions About an Experiment on the Wake of a Sphere in a Stratified Fluid....Pages 369-377
Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Three-Dimensional Boundary-Layer Transition....Pages 378-389
On the Instability of Laminar Boundary Layers Along Concave Walls Towards Görtler Vortices....Pages 390-398
Experimental Study of the Taylor-Görtler Instability....Pages 399-412
Lattice Gas Hydrodynamics....Pages 413-424
Back Matter....Pages 425-425