With the development of optical technologies, transparent materials that provide protection
from light have received considerable attention from scholars. As important channels for …

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

Abstract The cubic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is one of the most-studied nonlinear
equations in the physics community. It describes a vast variety of phenomena from nonlinear …

This book deals with density, temperature, velocity and concentration fluctuations in fluids
and fluid mixtures. The book first reviews thermal fluctuations in equilibrium fluids on the …

Pattern formation in large aspect ratio, single longitudinal mode, two-level lasers with flat
end reflectors, operating near peak gain, is shown to be described by a complex Swift …

Bent-core (BC) materials that form nematic liquid crystals (BC nematics (BCNs)) are known
only since 2000, but since then they have been intensively studied. In this review we give a …

Pattern formation in hydrodynamic instabilities has been studied intensely over the last
decades [1, 2]. Although Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) in simple fluids has been the …

Various patterns in the electrohydrodynamic convection of planarly aligned nematic liquid
crystals are investigated. We give experimental and theoretical results on the onset of …

Electric field-induced patterns in liquid crystals have been observed and studied for about
50 years. During this time, a great variety of structures, detected under different conditions …

The shadowgraph method is applied to thermal convection experiments and electro-
hydrodynamic convection (EHC) in nematic liquid crystals. In both cases convection leads to …