Self-Organization Autowaves and Structures Far from Equilibrium
Title:
Self-Organization Autowaves and Structures Far from Equilibrium
ISBN:
9783642702105
Edition:
1st ed. 1984.
Publication Information New:
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1984.
Physical Description:
XII, 266 p. online resource.
Series:
Springer Series in Synergetics, 28
Contents:
I Introduction -- Synergetics - Some Basic Concepts and Recent Results -- Autowaves: Results, Problems, Outlooks -- II Self-Organization in Physical Systems: Autowaves and Structures Far from Equilibrium -- The Microscopic Theory of Irreversible Processes -- Coherent Structures in Plasmas. -- Structures in the Universe. -- Interfacial Instability in Fluid Layers Under Thermal Constraints -- Laser-Induced Autowave Processes -- Completely Integrable Models in the Domain Walls and Interphases Theories -- The Autowave Phenomena on the Surface of Crystallizing Solution -- Autowave Processes in Semiconductors with the Temperature-Electric Instability -- Thermal Wave Propagation in a Superconducting System as an Autowave Process -- Theory of Development of Large-Scale Structures in Hydrodynamical Turbulence -- The Role of Fluctuations for Self-Organization in Physical Systems (an Exemplary Case of Transition from a Laminar to Turbulent Flow) -- Stochastization of Nonstationary Structures in a Distributed Oscillator with Delay. -- Experimental Study of Rossby Solitons and Dissipative Structures in Geostrophical Streams. -- III Mathematical Backgrounds of Autowaves -- A Theory of Spiral Waves in Active Media -- One-Dimensional Autowaves, Methods of Qualitative Description -- Twisted Scroll Waves in Three-Dimensional Active Media -- On the Complex Stationary Nearly Solitary Waves -- Elements of the "Optics" of Autowaves -- Numerical Simulation and Nonlinear Processes in Dissipative Media -- The Onset and the Development of Chaotic Structures in Dissipative Media -- IV Autowaves and Auto-Oscillations in Chemically Active Media -- Mathematical Models of Chemically Active Media -- On the Mechanism of Target Pattern Formation in the Distributed Belousov-Zhabotinsky System. -- Iodide-Induced Oscillation in Uncatalyzed Bromate Oscillators -- Topological Similarities in Dissipative Structures of Marangoni-Instabi1ity and Belousov-Zhabotinsky-Reaction. -- A Generalized Mechanism for Bromate-Driven Oscillators -- Electrical Field Effects on Propagating Pulse and Front Waves -- Self-Organization Phenomena and Autowave Processes in Heterogeneous Chemical and Physical Systems. -- Threshold Effects and Autowave Processes in Low-Temperature Solid-State Chemical Reactions. -- Spatial Structures and Pattern Selection in Chemical Systems -- Simulation of Self-Organized States in Combustion Processes -- V Autowaves in Biological Systems -- Leão's Spreading Depression, an Example of Diffusion-Mediated Propagation of Excitation in the Central Nervous System. -- The Autowave Nature of Cardiac Arrhythmias -- Cardiac Arrhythmias During Acute Myocardial Ischemia -- Properties of Rotating Waves in Three Dimensions. Scroll Rings in Myocard -- Waves and Structures in Space: Ecology and Epidemiology -- Synergetics and Biological Morphogenesis -- Collective Phenomena in the Multicellular Development of Dictyostelium Discoideur. -- Study of "Target Patterns" in a Phage-Bacterium System -- Plasmodium of the Myxomycete Physarum Polycephalum as an Autowave Self-Organizing System. -- VI Evolution and Self-Organization -- Violation of Symmetry and Self-Organization in Prebiological Evolution -- Physical Models of Evolution Processes -- Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Regulatory Hierarchy in Glycolysis -- Evolution and Value of Information -- Index of Contributors.
Abstract:
According to its definition, Synergetics is concerned with systems that produce macroscopic spatial, temporal, or functional structures. Autowaves are·a specific, yet very important, case of spatio-temporal structures. The term "autowave" was coined in the Soviet Union in analogy to the term "auto-oscillator". This is - perhaps too literal - translation of the Russian word "avto-ostsillyatory" (= self oscillator) which in its proper translation means "self-sustained oscillator". These are oscillators, e. g. , clocks, whose internal energy dissipation is compensa ted by a (more or less) continuous power input. Simi larly, the term "autowaves" de notes propagation effects - including waves - in active media, which provide spa tially distributed energy sources and thus may compensate dissipation. An example which is now famous is represented by spiral or concentric waves in a chemically active medium, undergoing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. This book provides the reader with numerous further examples from physics, chem istry, and biology - e. g. , autowaves of the heart. While the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction is now widely known, a number of very important results obtained in the Soviet Union are perhaps less well known. I am particularly glad that this book may help to make readers outside the Soviet Union acquainted with these important exper imental and theoretical findings which are presented in a way which elucidates the common principles underlying this kind of propagation effects. Professor V.
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Language:
English