Ebook: Evolution of spontaneous structures in dissipative continuous systems

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Mathematical tools for pattern formation / G. Dangelmayr and L. Kramer -- Formation of dynamical structures in axisymmetric fluid systems / F. H. Busse, G. Pfister and D. Schwabe -- Pattern formation in binary fluid convection and in systems with throughflow / M. Lucke, (et al) -- Dynamical structures in open fluid systems / D. Rempfer -- Theoretical and experimental investigations of the Faraday instability / H. W. Muuler, R. Friedrich and D. Papathanassiou -- Pattern formation in an inhomogeneous environment / W. Zimmermann, B. Painter and R. Behringer -- Electrically driven instabilities in smetic liquid crystal films / H. Pleiner, R. Stannarius and W. Wimmermann -- Electrohydrodynamic convection in nematics / W. Pesch and U. Behn -- Dynamics of patterns of chemical reactions on surfaces / R. Imbihl, H. Engel and M. Eiswirth -- Convection and pattern formation induced by autocatalytic chemical reactions / H. R. Brand and S. C. Muller -- Formation of spatio-temporal structures in semiconductors / E. Scholl, (et al.) -- Formation of patterns in granular materials / A. Betat, (et al.) -- Spontaneous generation of magnetic fields in the laboratory / F. H. Busse, (et al.) -- From single cells to a multicellular organism : the development of the social amobae / B. N. Vasiev and C. J. Weijer