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Self-Organization: Autowaves and Structures Far from Equilibrium

Self-Organization: Autowaves and Structures Far from Equilibrium

Krinsky, V. I.

Paperback

Series: Springer Synergetics, Book 28

ChemistryPhysics

ISBN10: 3642702120
ISBN13: 9783642702129
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 13 2011
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
According to its definition, Synergetics is concerned with systems that produce macroscopic spatial, temporal, or functional structures. Autowaves are-a specific, yet very important, case of spatio-temporal structures. The term autowave was coined in the Soviet Union in analogy to the term auto-oscillator. This is - perhaps too literal - translation of the Russian word avto-ostsillyatory (= self- oscillator) which in its proper translation means self-sustained oscillator. These are oscillators, e. g., clocks, whose internal energy dissipation is compensa- ted by a (more or less) continuous power input. Simi larly, the term autowaves de- notes propagation effects - including waves - in active media, which provide spa- tially distributed energy sources and thus may compensate dissipation. An example which is now famous is represented by spiral or concentric waves in a chemically active medium, undergoing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. This book provides the reader with numerous further examples from physics, chem- istry, and biology - e. g., autowaves of the heart. While the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction is now widely known, a number of very important results obtained in the Soviet Union are perhaps less well known. I am particularly glad that this book may help to make readers outside the Soviet Union acquainted with these important exper- imental and theoretical findings which are presented in a way which elucidates the common principles underlying this kind of propagation effects. Professor V.

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