دانلود کتاب Without Bounds: A Scientific Canvas of Nonlinearity and Complex Dynamics

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Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
M.G. Velarde: Succint Biography. Doing Science in Spain as a Maverick....Pages 3-6
M.G. Velarde: Highlights of Research Achievements....Pages 7-9
Gallery of Portraits and Other Pictures....Pages 11-28
Thirteen Years of Collaboration with Manuel on Complexity in Biorobotics and Brain Science....Pages 29-38
My Relation with Professor Manuel G. Velarde....Pages 39-42
My Scientific and Personal Relation with Manuel G. Velarde....Pages 43-44
Manolo García Velarde: Three Relevant Traits of His Multifaceted Persona....Pages 45-46
Reminiscences from an Expatriate Scientist....Pages 47-47
An Extraordinary Year of My Life....Pages 49-51
Reminiscence of My Time in Manuel’s Group at the Instituto Pluridisciplinar....Pages 53-54
My Year with Manuel....Pages 55-58
Our Adventure with Manuel....Pages 59-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
A Peculiar Observation Arising from the Stokes Approximation in Certain Closed Flows....Pages 65-70
Influence of Periodic and Quasi-periodic Gravitational Modulation on Convective Instability of Reaction Fronts in Porous Media....Pages 71-93
Genesis of Bénard–Marangoni Patterns in Thin Liquid Films Drying into Air....Pages 95-104
Pattern Formation Emerging from Stationary Solutal Marangoni Instability: A Roadmap Through the Underlying Hierarchic Structures....Pages 105-121
Observation of the Thermocapillary Motion of a Droplet in a Laser Beam....Pages 123-131
Influence of Heat Flux Modulation on Thermocapillary Instability in a Binary Mixture with the Soret Effect....Pages 133-143
Onset of Stationary Flows of a Cohesive Granular Material in a Channel....Pages 145-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Thermography Applied to Interfacial Phenomena, Potentials and Pitfalls....Pages 157-182
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Shear Rheology of Interfaces: Micro Rheological Methods....Pages 183-198
Cohesive and Non-cohesive Adsorption of Surfactants at Liquid Interfaces....Pages 199-225
Surface Wetting: From a Phenomenon to an Important Analytical Tool....Pages 227-257
Wetting Transition and Line Tension of Oil on Water....Pages 259-274
Dynamics of a Complete Wetting Liquid Under Evaporation....Pages 275-283
Evaporation of Sessile Droplets of Liquid on Solid Substrates....Pages 285-300
Superspreading: Role of the Substrate Surface Energy....Pages 301-314
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
Coupled Korteweg–de Vries Equations....Pages 317-333
Water Waves and Time Arrows in Conservative Continuum Physics....Pages 335-347
Surface Wave Damping....Pages 349-361
Shadowgraph Contrast of Internal Wave Trains During Absorption....Pages 363-370
Formation of Mach-Stems on Shock Fronts and Cellular Detonations....Pages 371-393
Cavity Solitons....Pages 395-404
Three-Wave Backward Optical Solitons....Pages 405-434
Rivulet Structures in Falling Liquid Films....Pages 435-441
Towards a Theory of Degenerated Solectrons in Doped Lattices: Problems and Perspectives....Pages 443-466
Surfing Electrons in Quantum Computers?....Pages 467-471
Collective Excitations in Superfluid Fermi Gases in the BCS-BEC Crossover....Pages 473-513
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
Toward a Complex Systems Approach to Information....Pages 517-524
Information-Theoretical Complexity Analysis of Selected Elementary Chemical Reactions....Pages 525-537
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
Stochastic Oscillators....Pages 539-557
PDEs in Moving Time Dependent Domains....Pages 559-577
Asymptotic Scaling for Euclidean Lattices....Pages 579-586
Front Matter....Pages 587-587
Present Day Biology seen in the Looking Glass of Physics of Complexity....Pages 589-622
Dissipative Structures and Biological Evolution....Pages 623-634
Nonlinear Models for Protein Folding and Function....Pages 635-646
Study of Cardiac Defibrillation Through Numerical Simulations....Pages 647-656
Morphogenesis and Complexity of the Tumor Patterns....Pages 657-691
Quantitative Neuroimaging: What You can Say and What You can Believe About the Brain....Pages 693-704
Front Matter....Pages 705-705
Strong Flows of Bottom Water in Abyssal Channels of the Atlantic....Pages 707-718
Global Climate Change and Local Severe Weather Phenomena: Is There a Possible Synthesis Among These Apparent Antitheses?....Pages 719-727
A Time-Space Description of the Analysis Produced by a Data Assimilation Method....Pages 729-746
Challenges of Biomass in a Development Model Based on Renewable Energies....Pages 747-768
Front Matter....Pages 769-769
Swings of Science: From Complexity to Simplicity and Back....Pages 771-788
A Decade of Science for the People in Spain: La Barraca De La Ciencia....Pages 789-796
A decade of hands-on science at the schools of Friul (Udine, province, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia): Toccare l’aria e sentire la terra tremare.....Pages 797-799