Stability of Thermodynamic Systems: Proceedings of the Meeting Held at Bellaterra School of Thermodynamics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, ... 1981 (Lecture Notes in Physics, 164)
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Thermodynamic theory of stability.- Mathematical methods in stability theory.- Some physical mechanisms of hydrodynamical instabilities.- Hydrodynamic fluctuations near the Rayleigh-Benard instability.- Some topics about the transition to turbulence.- Experimental aspects of the transition to turbulence in Rayleigh-Bénard convection.- Heat flux in convective instabilities.- Unstable flows of concentrated suspensions.- Dissipative structures and oscillations in reaction-diffusion models with or without time-delay.- Fluctuations in electromagnetic systems.- Instabilities in ecology.- Strange attractors.
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