Overview
- Provides broad and accessible description of a fascinating novel field within complexity science
- Is richly illustrated with informative diagrams and breathtaking photographs
- Written by a skilled author who excels at giving the "big picture"
Part of the book series: The Frontiers Collection (FRONTCOLL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents a comprehensive review of various aspects of the novel and rapidly developing field of active matter, which encompasses a wide variety of self-organized self-driven energy-consuming media or agents. Most naturally occurring examples are of biological origin, spanning all scales from intracellular structures to swimming and crawling cells and microorganisms, to living tissues, bacterial colonies and flocks of birds. But the field also encompasses artificial systems, from colloids to soft robots. Intrinsically out of equilibrium and free of constraints of time-reversal symmetry, such systems display a range of surprising and unusual behaviors.
In this book, the author emphasizes connections between fluid-mechanical, material, biological and technological aspects of active matter. He employs a minimum of mathematical tools, ensuring that the presentation is accessible to a wider scientific community. Richly illustrated, it gives the reader a clear picture of this fascinating field, its diverse phenomena and its open questions.Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Len Pismen is Emeritus Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He has worked in various areas of applied physics and published over 200 papers. His earlier books include Vortices in Nonlinear Fields (1999), Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics (2006), and general audience books The Swings of Science (2018) and Morphogenesis Deconstructed (2020). The latter, most recent, book also appears in Springer's Frontiers Collection.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Active Matter Within and Around Us
Book Subtitle: From Self-Propelled Particles to Flocks and Living Forms
Authors: Len Pismen
Series Title: The Frontiers Collection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68421-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68420-4Published: 16 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68423-5Published: 17 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68421-1Published: 15 February 2021
Series ISSN: 1612-3018
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6619
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 227
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 216 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Complex Systems, Condensed Matter Physics, Cell Biology, Zoology, Chemistry/Food Science, general