Research Catalog

Title

Chemical waves and patterns / edited by Raymond Kapral and Kenneth Showalter.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Kapral, Raymond.
• Showalter, Kenneth.

Description

x, 640 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Understanding chemical reactivity ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Understanding chemical reactivity ; v. 10.

Subjects

• Wave mechanics
• Oscillating chemical reactions
• Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction
• Vortex-motion
• Waves

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Lingering Mysteries about Organizing Centers in the Belousov-Zhabotinksy Medium and Its Oregonator Model / A. T. Winfree -- 2. Spiral Wave Dynamics / S. C. Muller and T. Plesser -- 3. A Theory of Rotating Scroll Waves in Excitable Media / J. J. Tyson and J. P. Keener -- 4. Spiral Waves in Weakly Excitable Media / A. S. Mikhailov and V. S. Zykov -- 5. Spiral Meandering / D. Barkley -- 6. Spiral and Target Waves in Finite and Discontinuous Media / J. A. Sepulchre and A. Babloyantz -- 7. Turing Patterns: From Myth to Reality / J. Boissonade, E. Dulos and P. De Kepper -- 8. Onset and Beyond Turing Pattern Formation / Q. Ouyang and H. L. Swinney -- 9. The Chemistry behind the First Experimental Chemical Examples of Turing Patterns / I. Lengyel and I. R. Epstein -- 10. Turing Bifurcations and Pattern Selection / P. Borckmans, G. Dewel, A. De Wit and D. Walgraef -- 11. The Differential Flow Instabilities / M. Menzinger and A. B. Rovinsky.
• 12. Wave Propagation and Wave Pattern Formation in Non-uniform Reaction-Diffusion Systems / A. M. Zhabotinsky -- 13. Chemical Front Propagation: Initiation and Relative Stability / E. Mori, X. Chu and J. Ross -- 14. Pattern Formation on Catalytic Surfaces / M. Eiswirth and G. Ertl -- 15. Simple and Complex Reaction-Diffusion Fronts / S. K. Scott and K. Showalter -- 16. Modeling Front Pattern Formation and Intermittent Bursting Phenomena in the Couette Flow Reactor / A. Arneodo and J. Elezgaray -- 17. Probabilistic Approach to Chemical Instabilities and Chaos / G. Nicolis, F. Baras, P. Geysermans and P. Peeters -- 18. Internal Noise, Oscillations, Chaos and Chemical Waves / R. Kapral and X.-G. Wu.

ISBN

079232899X

LCCN

94016566

OCLC

• 30438664
• ocm30438664

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries