Cellular Structures in Instabilities: Proceedings of the Meeting “Structures cellulaires dans les instabilités – périodicité, défauts, turbulence de phase” Held at Gif-sur-Yvette, France, June 20–22,1983

J. E. Wesfreid, S. Zaleski (auth.), José Eduardo Wesfreid, Stéphane Zaleski (eds.)354013879X, 9783540138792, 038713879X

Table of contents :
Cellular structures in instabilities : An introduction….Pages 1-32
Rayleigh-Benard instability : Experimental study of the wavenumber selection….Pages 33-42
Wavelength selection and pattern localization in buckling problems….Pages 43-55
Wavenumber selection in buckling experiments….Pages 56-62
Effect of boundaries on periodic patterns….Pages 63-74
Cell number selection in Taylor-Couette flow….Pages 75-83
Wavelength selection through boundaries in 1-D cellular structures….Pages 84-103
Wavenumber selection in Rayleigh-Benard convective structure….Pages 104-126
Convection patterns in large aspect ratio systems….Pages 127-128
Three dimensional convective structttres in a horizontal or tilted porous layer….Pages 129-136
Modelisation and simulation of convection in extended geometry….Pages 137-155
Pattern evolution from convective and electrohydrodynamic instabilities….Pages 156-159
Amplitude equations for non linear convection in high vertical channels….Pages 160-171
Stability of cellular systems in Taylor-Couette instability….Pages 172-176
Spatial dissipative structures and hydrodynamic instabilities….Pages 177-184
Chemical structures far from equilibrium….Pages 185-196
Structure defects in Benard-Marangoni instability….Pages 197-206
Non adiabatic phenomena in cellular structures….Pages 207-214
Smectics : A model for dynamical systems?….Pages 215-248
Defects and interactions with the structures in ehd convection in nematic liquid crystals….Pages 249-262
Quantitative study pf the disorganization of hexagonal convective structures….Pages 263-269
Shear modes in low-prandtl thermal convection….Pages 270-277
Spatial instabilities and temporal chaos….Pages 278-284
Temporal and spatial aspects of the onset of chaos in a Taylor instability subjected to a magnetic field….Pages 285-293
Electro-hydro-dynamical convective structures and transitions to chaos in a liquid crystal….Pages 294-306
Rotating disk flows, transition to turbulence….Pages 307-318
Morphological instabilities in the solidification front of binary mixtures….Pages 319-330
Cellular structures on premixed flames in a uniform laminar flow….Pages 331-341
Energy in the Benard-Rayleigh problem….Pages 342-350
Modelisation of thermoconvective instabilities in saturated porous media- lateral boundary influence….Pages 351-357
Competition between marangoni and archimedean forces, to determine the surface profile of a liquid heated, open to air….Pages 358-370
Surface relief accompanying natural convection in liquid layers heated from below….Pages 371-375
On the subject of Gortler vortex….Pages 376-384