Illustrates the Fascination of Synergetics

Concentrates on pattern formation, phase transitions, chaos and turbulence in complex chemical, biological and social systems

Presents impressive graphs, photographs and numeric calculations

Presents impressive examples from catalysis and diffusion-reaction up to cell movement, hot flushes during menopause spreading of knowledge and blue sky catastrophes in fairy tails

Illustrates the Fascination of Synergetics Focuses on pattern formation, phase transitions, chaos, and turbulence in complex chemical and social systems Presents impressive graphs, photographs, and numeric calculations

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Illustrates the Fascination of Synergetics Concentrates on pattern formation, phase transitions, chaos and turbulence in complex chemical, biological and social systems Presents impressive graphs, photographs and numeric calculations Presents impressive examples from catalysis and diffusion-reaction up to cell movement, hot flushes during menopause spreading of knowledge and blue sky catastrophes in fairy tails

Inhalt
Images from the history of synergetics.- Part I: Synergetic view on historic experiments.- The Swinging chromium.- Liesegang structures.- Runge pictures.- Part II: Fractal structure in chemistry and biology.- Fractal metal zinc-trees.- The fractal character of modified zeolites.- Pattern of sea shells modelled by one-dimensional automata.- Part III: Dissipative structures.- Waves which move uphill.- Dissipative sculpturing of beige jasper of the eastern desert of Egypt.- Complex dissipative structures mainly at liquid/liquid and liquid/gas inter-phases.- Cooperation of flow instabilities.- The oscillatory regime of Marangoni-instability.- Part IV: Structure formation in social systems.- Creativity comments to the scientific process.- Mother Hulda and the Blue Sky Catastrophe.- Part V: Kaleidoscope.- Small contributions to a variety of complex pattern formation processes.