A Perspective Look at Nonlinear Media

1. Front Matter

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2. Quantum chaos in Rydberg atoms

   • H. Held, J. Schlichter, H. Walther

   Pages 1-18

3. Crystallization of electrons and holes

   • P. Fulde

   Pages 19-30

4. Natural patterns in nonequilibrium systems

   • M. Bestehorn, R. Friedrich

   Pages 31-44

5. Linear aspects of the Faraday instability

   • Hanns Walter Müller

   Pages 45-60

6. On curved cellular flames

   • Andreas G. Class

   Pages 61-74

7. Nonlinear flow behavior and shear-induced structure of fluids

   • Siegfried Hess

   Pages 75-95

8. Experimental study of horizontally shaken granular matter — The swelling effect

   • Thorsten Pöschel, Dirk E. Rosenkranz

   Pages 96-109

9. On relaxational granular compaction

   • Stefan J. Linz

   Pages 110-121

10. From microscopic to macroscopic traffic models

    • Dirk Helbing

    Pages 122-139

11. The modelling concept of sociodynamics

    • Wolfgang Weidlich

    Pages 140-162

12. The morphogenesis of dictyostelium discoideum — Pattern formation in a biological excitable system

    • Florian Siegert, Bakhtier Vasiev, Cornelis J. Weijer

    Pages 163-178

13. Path optimization in chemical and biological systems on the basis of excitation waves

    • Oliver Steinbock

    Pages 179-191

14. BSE viewed dynamically: A possible early cure based on passive immunization against PrPSc

    • Otto E. Rössler, John L. Hudson, Reimara Rössler, Jürgen Parisi

    Pages 192-196

15. Molecular semiotic structures in the cellular immune system: Key to dynamics and spatial patterning?

    • Walter Schubert

    Pages 197-206

16. Molecular evolutionary dynamics

    • Christian V. Forst

    Pages 207-226

17. The retinal spreading depression: A model for nonlinear behavior of the brain

    • Wolfgang Hanke, Markus Goldermann, Sabine Brand, Vera Maura Fernandes de Lima

    Pages 227-243

18. An analytically solvable model of collective excitation patterns in cortical tissue

    • Werner M. Kistler, J. Leo van Hemmen

    Pages 244-270

19. Interaction of meandering spiral waves in active media

    • H. Brandtstädter, M. Braune, H. Engel

    Pages 271-282

20. Spatiotemporal patterns in a passivating electrochemical system

    • R. D. Otterstedt, N. I. Jaeger, P. J. Plath, J. L. Hudson

    Pages 283-291

Concepts of nonlinear physics are applied to an increasing number of research disciplines. With this volume, the editors offer a selection of articles on nonlinear topics in progress, ranging from physics and chemistry to biology and some applications of social science. The book covers quantum optics, electron crystallization, cellular or flow patterns in fluids and in granular media, biological systems, and the control of brain structures via neuronal excitation. Chemical patterns are looked at both in bulk solutions and on surfaces in heterogeneous systems. From regular structures, the authors turn to the more complex behavior in biology and physics, such as hydrodynamical turbulence, low-dimensional dynamics in solid-state physics, and gravity.

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Experiment
• Gravitation
• Nonlinear Science
• Physics
• Social Science
• Transit
• control
• optimization
• reading
• stability
• temperature

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