Pattern Formation at Interfaces

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Colinet, Pierre (Editor), Nepomnyashchy, Alexander (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2010.
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, 513
• Subjects: Engineering.; Fluid mechanics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.

The book deals with modern methods of nonlinear stability theory applied to problems of continuous media mechanics in the presence of interfaces, with applications to materials science, chemical engineering, heat transfer technologies, as well as in combustion and other reaction-diffusion systems. I...

Table of Contents:

• Interfacial patterns and waves in liquid layers and thin films
• Nonlinear dynamics of fronts
• Three Dimensional Film Dynamics
• Thin Film and Droplet Patterns Shaped by Surface Forces
• Interfacial Phenomena in Materials Science
• The Physics and Analyses of Interfacial Instabilities that Arise from Phase Change.