Fluctuations and Sensitivity in Nonequilibrium Systems [electronic resource] : Proceedings of an International Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, March 12–16, 1984 /

I Basic Theory -- Irreversibility and Space-Time Structure -- Stochastic Systems: Qualitative Theory and Lyapunov Exponents -- First Passage Times for Processes Governed by Master Equations -- II Pattern Formation and Selection -- Three Caveats for Linear Stability Theory: Rayleigh-Bénard Convection -- Pattern Selection and Phase Fluctuations in Chemical Systems -- Experiments on Patterns and Noise in Hydrodynamic Systems -- III Bistable Systems -- Optical Bistability: Steady-State and Transient Behavior -- Experimental Studies of the Transitions Between Stationary States in a Bistable Chemical System -- Noise-Induced Transitions in Multi-Stable Systems -- Bistable Flows Driven by Colored Noise -- IV Response to Stochastic and Periodic Forcing -- Noise-Induced Transitions -- Dynamical Aspects of External Nonwhite Noise -- Dynamic Systems with Fast Parametric Oscillations -- Experimental Studies of Noise-Induced Transitions -- Sensitivity of a Hopf Bifurcation to External Multiplicative Noise -- V Noise and Deterministic Chaos -- Noise and Chaos in Selected Quantum Optical Systems -- Distinguishing Low-Dimensional Chaos from Random Noise in a Hydrodynamic Experiment -- Sensitive Dependence to Parameters, Fat Fractals, and Universal Strange Attractors -- Noise-Induced Transitions in Discrete-Time Systems -- Scaling for External Excitations of a Period-Doubling System -- VI Sensitivity in Nonequilibrium Systems -- General Sensitivity Analysis of Differential Equation Systems -- Nonequilibrium Sensitivity -- Patterns of Nonequilibrium Sensitivity in Biological Systems -- Chemical Reaction Network Sensitivity Analysis -- VII Contributed Papers and Posters -- Chaos in the Conservative Duffing System — Renormalization Group Prediction -- Solvable Double-Well Potential Models -- Nonlinear Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations -- Numerical Studies of Fluctuations and Hysteresis in the Homogeneous Schögl Model -- Could Weak Neutral Currents Have Determined Biological Chirality? -- Nonequilibrium Chemical Instabilities in Continuous Flow Stirred Tank Reactors: The Effect of Stirring -- The Effect of Random and Periodic Fluctuations on Nonlinear Systems -- The Period-Doubling Power Spectrum of Conservative Systems -- A New Computable Criterion for the Non-Existence of Invariant Circles -- Periodic and Nonperiodic Dynamical Behavior Near Homoclinic Systems -- Precursors of Period Doubling Instabilities -- Flow Patterns in a Circular Couette System -- Index of Contributors.

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Main Authors: Horsthemke, Werner. editor., Kondepudi, Dilip K. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Texto biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1984
Subjects:Physics., Physical chemistry., Fluids., Thermodynamics., Statistical physics., Dynamical systems., Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity., Fluid- and Aerodynamics., Physical Chemistry.,
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46508-6
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Summary:I Basic Theory -- Irreversibility and Space-Time Structure -- Stochastic Systems: Qualitative Theory and Lyapunov Exponents -- First Passage Times for Processes Governed by Master Equations -- II Pattern Formation and Selection -- Three Caveats for Linear Stability Theory: Rayleigh-Bénard Convection -- Pattern Selection and Phase Fluctuations in Chemical Systems -- Experiments on Patterns and Noise in Hydrodynamic Systems -- III Bistable Systems -- Optical Bistability: Steady-State and Transient Behavior -- Experimental Studies of the Transitions Between Stationary States in a Bistable Chemical System -- Noise-Induced Transitions in Multi-Stable Systems -- Bistable Flows Driven by Colored Noise -- IV Response to Stochastic and Periodic Forcing -- Noise-Induced Transitions -- Dynamical Aspects of External Nonwhite Noise -- Dynamic Systems with Fast Parametric Oscillations -- Experimental Studies of Noise-Induced Transitions -- Sensitivity of a Hopf Bifurcation to External Multiplicative Noise -- V Noise and Deterministic Chaos -- Noise and Chaos in Selected Quantum Optical Systems -- Distinguishing Low-Dimensional Chaos from Random Noise in a Hydrodynamic Experiment -- Sensitive Dependence to Parameters, Fat Fractals, and Universal Strange Attractors -- Noise-Induced Transitions in Discrete-Time Systems -- Scaling for External Excitations of a Period-Doubling System -- VI Sensitivity in Nonequilibrium Systems -- General Sensitivity Analysis of Differential Equation Systems -- Nonequilibrium Sensitivity -- Patterns of Nonequilibrium Sensitivity in Biological Systems -- Chemical Reaction Network Sensitivity Analysis -- VII Contributed Papers and Posters -- Chaos in the Conservative Duffing System — Renormalization Group Prediction -- Solvable Double-Well Potential Models -- Nonlinear Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations -- Numerical Studies of Fluctuations and Hysteresis in the Homogeneous Schögl Model -- Could Weak Neutral Currents Have Determined Biological Chirality? -- Nonequilibrium Chemical Instabilities in Continuous Flow Stirred Tank Reactors: The Effect of Stirring -- The Effect of Random and Periodic Fluctuations on Nonlinear Systems -- The Period-Doubling Power Spectrum of Conservative Systems -- A New Computable Criterion for the Non-Existence of Invariant Circles -- Periodic and Nonperiodic Dynamical Behavior Near Homoclinic Systems -- Precursors of Period Doubling Instabilities -- Flow Patterns in a Circular Couette System -- Index of Contributors.