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Complexity and Synergetics

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Editors:
  1. Stefan C. Müller

    1. Institute of Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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  2. Peter J. Plath

    1. Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institute of the MPG, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Günter Radons

    1. Institute of Physics, Complex Systems, Technical University Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

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  4. Armin Fuchs

    1. Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

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  • Top class research in Complexity and Synergetics
  • Presents a broad range of topics in the field of complexity incl. a contribution from Hermann Haken, the founder of Synergetics
  • Very carefully edited outcome of the Symposium „Complexity and Synergetics”, held at Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, July 8 – 11, 2015
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. About Self-organization of Information and Synergetics

      • Werner Ebeling, Rainer Feistel
      Pages 3-8

    3. Some Aspects of Synergetics. From Laser Light to Cognition

      • Hermann Haken
      Pages 9-24

  3. Physics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Dynamical Systems with Time-Varying Delay: Dissipative and More Dissipative Systems

      • David Müller, Andreas Otto, Günter Radons
      Pages 27-37

    3. Markov Property of Velocity Increments in Burgers Turbulence

      • Jan Friedrich, Rainer Grauer
      Pages 39-49

    4. Beads in a Rotating Box

      • Frank Rietz, Ralf Stannarius
      Pages 51-60

    5. Power Grids as Synergetic Systems

      • Oliver Kamps, Katrin Schmietendorf
      Pages 61-68

  4. Chemistry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Nonlinear Phenomena in Heterogeneous Catalysis

      • Marina M. Slinko, Alexei G. Makeev, Nikolai V. Peskov
      Pages 71-86

    3. Catalytic Oxidation of CO—A Striking Example of Synergetics

      • Peter J. Plath, Carsten Ballandis
      Pages 87-100

    4. Understanding Earth: The Self-organization Concept and Its Geological Significance; on the Example of Liesegang-Structures and Electric Fields

      • Sabine Dietrich, Karl-Heinz Jacob
      Pages 101-115

    5. Pattern Formation in Microemulsions Affected by Electric Fields

      • Patricia Dähmlow, Stefan C. Müller
      Pages 117-128

    6. Unpinning of Spiral Waves

      • Jiraporn Luengviriya, Malee Sutthiopad, Metinee Phantu, Porramain Porjai, Stefan C. Müller, Chaiya Luengviriya
      Pages 129-138

    7. Battery—Determination and Forecast via Synergetics

      • Ernst-Christoph Haß, Katharina Knicker, Uwe Sydow, Matthias Schulz, Peter J. Plath
      Pages 139-153

    8. Dynamics and Control of Spiral and Scroll Waves

      • Sumana Dutta, Nirmali Prabha Das, Dhriti Mahanta
      Pages 155-165

    9. One-Way Diffusion and Active Motion of Ionic Liquids in a Dissolution Process in Water

      • Noriko Oikawa, Rei Kurita
      Pages 167-175

  5. Biology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Pattern Formation in Marine Systems

      • Ulrike Feudel
      Pages 179-196
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About this book

All of us are confronted with complex phenomena occurring in daily life and in the living and inanimate nature surrounding us. Our scientific curiosity strives to unravel the mechanisms at work to create such complexity. Among various approaches to solve this problem, the field of synergetics, developed by Hermann Haken, has proven very successful as a general and interdisciplinary concept for describing and explaining complex phenomena that appear in systems under non-equilibrium conditions. These comprise dynamical states in evolving systems, spatial structure-forming processes, synchronization of states and regulatory mechanisms, and many other examples. The encompassing concepts have been applied to many disciplines, like physics, chemistry, biology, and beyond those also from synergetics to information theory, brain science, economics, and others.

Starting from basic methods of complexity research and synergetics, this volume contains thirty contributions on complex systems that exhibit spontaneous pattern formation far from thermal equilibrium. Written by international experts and young researchers assembled under one roof, this volume reflects state of the art research from a variety of scientific fields and disciplines where complexity theory and synergetics are important or even indispensable tools today and in the future.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

    Stefan C. Müller

  • Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institute of the MPG, Berlin, Germany

    Peter J. Plath

  • Institute of Physics, Complex Systems, Technical University Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

    Günter Radons

  • Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

    Armin Fuchs

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Complexity and Synergetics

  • Editors: Stefan C. Müller, Peter J. Plath, Günter Radons, Armin Fuchs

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64334-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64333-5Published: 27 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87773-0Published: 31 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64334-2Published: 16 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 421

  • Number of Illustrations: 90 b/w illustrations, 125 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Complexity, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory

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