Dynamics of Spatio-Temporal Cellular Structures: Henri Benard Centenary Review - Springer Tracts in Modern Physics And and Ed. edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- 1. The Context of Benard Scientific Work and Nonlinear Science / I. Mutabazi, J. E. Wesfreid, E. Guyon -- 2. Scientific Biography of Henri Benard (1874-1939) / J. E. Wesfreid -- Part II. Benard Cellular Structures -- 3. Rayleigh-B&eaccute;nard Convection: Thirty Years of Experimental, Theoretical, and Modeling Work / P. Manneville -- 4. Experiments with Rayleigh-Benard Convection / G. Ahlers -- 5. Rayleigh-Benard Convection as a Model of a Nonlinear System: A Personal View / Y. Pomeau -- 6. Benard Convection and Geophysical Applications / F. H. Busse -- Part III. Benard-Marangoni Cellular Structures -- 7. Benard Layers, Overstability, and Waves / M. G. Velarde -- 8. Hydrothermal Waves in a Disk of Fluid / N. Garnier, A. Chiffaudel, F. Daviaud -- 9. Secondary Instabilities in Surface-Tension-Driven Benard-Marangoni Convection / K. Eckert, A. Thess -- Part IV. Benard and Wakes -- 10. Wake Instabilities Behind Bluff Bodies / M. Provansal -- 11. Spatial Inhomogeneities of Hydrodynamic Instabilities / S. Goujon-Durand, J. E. Wesfreid -- Part V. Extension of Benard's Work -- 12. Patterns and Chaotic Dynamics in Faraday Surface Waves / J. P. Gollub -- 13. The Taylor-Couette Flow: The Hydrodynamic Twin of Rayleigh-Benard Convection / A. Prigent, B. Dubrulle, O. Dauchot, I. Mutabazi -- Index. Publisher Marketing: 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."