A comprehensive review of spatiotemporal pattern formation in systems driven away from
equilibrium is presented, with emphasis on comparisons between theory and quantitative …

▪ Abstract This review summarizes results for Rayleigh-Bénard convection that have been
obtained over the past decade or so. It concentrates on convection in compressed gases …

This book describes the research that has been done on the problems of Benard convection-
as well as its modern offspring, the Rayleigh-Benard problem-and Taylor vortices. Benard …

This invaluable book presents a concise but systematic account of the formation of spatial
flow structures in a horizontal fluid layer heated from below. Flows of this type, known as …

From the stripes of a zebra and the spots on a leopard's back to the ripples on a sandy
beach or desert dune, regular patterns arise everywhere in nature. The appearance and …

The theory of bifurcation from equilibria based on center-manifold reduction and Poincaré-
Birkhoff normal forms is reviewed at an introductory level. Both differential equations and …

Two-fluid dynamics is a challenging subject rich in physics and prac tical applications. Many
of the most interesting problems are tied to the loss of stability which is realized in …

Patterns of an almost periodic nature appear all over the place. One sees them in cloud
streets, in sand ripples on flat beaches, in the morphology of plants and animals, in …

The Sun's supergranulation refers to a physical pattern covering the surface of the quiet Sun
with a typical horizontal scale of approximately 30,000 km and a lifetime of around 1.8 d. Its …

We present experimental studies of the rich variety of two-dimensional current-density
patterns that form in self-extinguishing or ''silent''gas discharges between insulated, planar …