Proceedings of the Conference on Instability and Dissipative Structures in Hydrodynamics / / edited by I. Prigogine and Stuart A. Rice

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910877226003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Wiley, [1975]
• ISBN: 1-282-34754-3; 9786612347542; 0-470-14384-3; 0-470-14417-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Collana: Advances in chemical physics ; ; v. 32
• Altri autori (Persone): PrigogineI (Ilya); RiceStuart Alan <1932->
• Disciplina: 532.58; 541.305; 541/.08
• Soggetti: Heat - Convection; Hydrodynamics; Stability
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ON INSTABILITY AND DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES IN HYDRODYNAMICS; CONTENTS; ON THE MECHANISM OF INSTABILITIES IN NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; ON A UNIFIED THERMODYNAMIC APPROACH TO A LARGE CLASS OF INSTABILITIES OF DISSIPATIVE CONTINUA; CONCEPTS IN HYDRODYNAMIC STABILITY THEORY; SOME REMARKS ON VARIATIONAL METHODS, THE LOCAL POTENTIAL, AND FINITE ELEMENT METHODS WITH APPLICATION TO CERTAIN CONTINUUM MECHANICS PROBLEMS; GLANSDORFF-PRIGOGINE CRITERION AND STATISTICAL THEORY; NUMERICAL MODELS FOR CONVECTION; THE EFFECT OF PRANDTL NUMBER ON FINITE AMPLITUDE BENARD CONVECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING FROM NONEQUILIBRIUM FLUID SYSTEMSMAGNETIC FIELDS AND CONVECTION; STABILITY OF SUPERCRITICAL BENARD CONVECTION AND TAYLOR VORTEX FLOW; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS ON DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE INSTABILITIES; CYLINDRICAL COUETTE FLOW ; INSTABILITIES IN NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF STATIONARY PROFILES OF A WATER-ICE MOBILE SOLIDIFICATION INTERFACE; STELLAR EVOLUTIONARY STABILITY IN RELATION TO SPECTRAL THEORY; STELLAR ATMOSPHERES, NONEQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS, AND IRREVERSIBILITY; THE BENARD INSTABILITY IN LIQUID MIXTURES; ON THE NATURE OF OSCILLATORY CONVECTION IN TWO-COMPONENT FLUIDSFINITE AMPLITUDE INSTABILITY IN THE TWO-COMPONENT BENARD PROBLEM; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
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