Overview
- Features on time-variable oscillations and their interactions
- Describes the physics of open systems where the function of each oscillator is affected by its environment
- Offers a selection of invited presentations from a topical workshop
Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory
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About this book
This book, based on a selection of invited presentations from a topical workshop, focusses on time-variable oscillations and their interactions. The problem is challenging, because the origin of the time variability is usually unknown. In mathematical terms, the oscillations are non-autonomous, reflecting the physics of open systems where the function of each oscillator is affected by its environment. Time-frequency analysis being essential, recent advances in this area, including wavelet phase coherence analysis and nonlinear mode decomposition, are discussed. Some applications to biology and physiology are described.
Although the most important manifestation of time-variable oscillations is arguably in biology, they also crop up in, e.g. astrophysics, or for electrons on superfluid helium. The book brings together the research of the best international experts in seemingly very different disciplinary areas.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physics of Biological Oscillators
Book Subtitle: New Insights into Non-Equilibrium and Non-Autonomous Systems
Editors: Aneta Stefanovska, Peter V. E. McClintock
Series Title: Understanding Complex Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59805-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59804-4Published: 06 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59807-5Published: 07 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59805-1Published: 05 May 2021
Series ISSN: 1860-0832
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 431
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 96 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Systems Biology, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering