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This book addresses the fascinating phenomena associated with
nonlinear waves and spatio-temporal patterns. These appear almost
everywhere in nature from sand bed forms to brain patterns, and yet
their understanding still presents fundamental scientific
challenges. The reader will learn here, in particular, about the
current state-of-the art and new results in: Nonlinear water waves:
resonance, solitons, focusing, Bose-Einstein condensation, as well
as and their relevance for the sea environment (sea-wind
interaction, sand bed forms, fiber clustering) Pattern formation in
non-equilibrium media: soap films, chimera patterns in oscillating
media, viscoelastic Couette-Taylor flow, flow in the wake behind a
heated cylinder, other pattern formation. The editors and authors
dedicate this book to the memory of Alexander Ezersky, Professor of
Fluid Mechanics at the University of Caen Normandie (France) from
September 2007 to July 2016. Before 2007, he had served as a Senior
Scientist at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian
Academy of Sciences in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia). The chapters have
been written by leading scientists in Nonlinear Physics, and the
topics chosen so as to cover all the fields to which Prof. Ezersky
himself contributed, by means of experimental, theoretical and
numerical approaches. The volume will appeal to advanced students
and researchers studying nonlinear waves and pattern dynamics, as
well as other scientists interested in their applications in
various natural media.
On March 15, 1901, Henri B' enard defended his thesis entitled "Les
Tourbillons cellulaires dans une nappe liquide propageant de la
chaleur par convection en 1 r' egime permanent" at the University
of Paris, Sorbonne. The results contained in this thesis have been
at the origin of recent intensive research activities on c- lular
structures observed in many physicochemical systems far from
equilibrium: instabilities, spatio-temporal patterns, chaos, and
turbulence. The French Physical Society organized a scienti?c
meeting to commemorate the centenary of B' enard's thesis, at the
Ecole Sup' erieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris
(ESPCI). This meeting, which gathered approximately one hundred
scientists and graduate students working in nonlinear science, was
honored by the presence of the director of the ESPCI, Professor
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel laureate in physics (1991), who gave
the opening talk. At the conference, lectures were given by
internationally recognized scholars who have contributed to the
development of B' enard's work: J.E. Wesfreid, P.
Manneville,Y.Pomeau,M.Velarde,J.Gollub,M.Provansal,G.Nicolis,B.C-
taing,andP.Coullet.Apostersessionandaroundtableonfurtherdevelopments
in nonlinear physics were organized. In the present book, we have
extended the list of contributors in order to cover all the aspects
involved with B' enard's work, with a main focus on th- mal
convection, on B' enard-Marangoni instability and on B' enard-von
Karman instability.
WewouldliketothankDr.HansKoelschfromSpringerforthepublicationof
this monography in the Springer Tracts in Modern Physics series. We
ackno- edge a critical reading by C.D. Mitescu and a very helpful
technical assistance from Olivier Crumeyrolle.
On March 15, 1901, Henri B enard defended his thesis entitled "Les
Tourbillons cellulaires dans une nappe liquide propageant de la
chaleur par convection en 1 r egime permanent" at the University of
Paris, Sorbonne. The results contained in this thesis have been at
the origin of recent intensive research activities on c- lular
structures observed in many physicochemical systems far from
equilibrium: instabilities, spatio-temporal patterns, chaos, and
turbulence. The French Physical Society organized a scienti?c
meeting to commemorate the centenary of B enard's thesis, at the
Ecole Sup erieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris
(ESPCI). This meeting, which gathered approximately one hundred
scientists and graduate students working in nonlinear science, was
honored by the presence of the director of the ESPCI, Professor
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel laureate in physics (1991), who gave
the opening talk. At the conference, lectures were given by
internationally recognized scholars who have contributed to the
development of B enard's work: J.E. Wesfreid, P. Manneville,
Y.Pomeau, M.Velarde, J.Gollub, M.Provansal, G.Nicolis, B.C- taing,
andP.Coullet.Apostersessionandaroundtableonfurtherdevelopments in
nonlinear physics were organized. In the present book, we have
extended the list of contributors in order to cover all the aspects
involved with B enard's work, with a main focus on th- mal
convection, on B enard-Marangoni instability and on B enard-von
Karman instability.
WewouldliketothankDr.HansKoelschfromSpringerforthepublicationof
this monography in the Springer Tracts in Modern Physics series. We
ackno- edge a critical reading by C.D. Mitescu and a very helpful
technical assistance from Olivier Crumeyrolle."
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