Kenneth Showalter

Chemical Waves and Patterns - Understanding Chemical Reactivity Kenneth Showalter

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Spiral Waves. Lingering Mysteries about Organizing Centers in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Medium and its Oregonator Model; A. Winfree. Spiral Wave Dynamics; S. Muller, T. Plesser. A Theory of Rotating Scroll Waves in Excitable Media; J. Tyson, J. Keener. Spiral Waves in Weakly Excitable Media; A. S. Mikhailov, V. S. Zykov. Spiral Meandering; D. Barkley. Spiral and Target Waves in Finite and Discontinuous Media; A.-A. Sepulchre, A. Babloyantz. Turing and Turing-like Patterns. Turing Patterns: from Myth to Reality; J. Boissonade, E. Dulos, P. DeKepper. Onset and Beyond Turing Pattern Formation; Q. Ouyang, H. L. Swinney. The Chemistry behind the First Experimental Chemical Examples of Turing Patterns; I. Lengyel, I. R. Epstein. Turing Bifurcations and Pattern Selection; P. Borckmans, G. Dewel, A. De Witt, D. Walgraef. The Differential Flow Instabilities; M. Menzinger, A. Rovinsky. Chemical Wave Dynamics. Wave Propagation and Pattern Formation in Nonuniform Reaction-Diffusion Systems; A. Zhabotinsky. Chemical Front Propagation: Initiation and Stability; E. Mori, X. Chu, J. Ross. Pattern Formation on Catalytic Surfaces; M. Eiswirth, G. Ertl. Simple and Complex Reaction-Diffusion Fronts; S. K. Scott, K. Showalter. Modeling Front Pattern Formation and Intermittent Bursting Phenomena in the Couette Flow Reactor; A. Arneodo, J. Elegaray. Fluctuations and Chemical Waves. Probabilistic Approach to Chemical Instabilities and Chaos; G. Nicolis, F. Baras, P. Geysermans, P. Peeters. Internal Noise, Oscillations, Chaos and Chemical Patterns; R. Kapral, X.-G. Wu. Index."

Contributor Bio:  Kapral, Raymond Raymond Kapral is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto.