Nonlinear Waves

Since 1972 the Schools on Nonlinear Physics in Gorky have been a meeting place for Soviet scientists working in this field. Instead of producing for the first time English proceedings it has been decided to present a good cross section of nonlinear physics in the USSR. Thus the participants at the last School were invited to provide English reviews and research papers for these two volumes (which in the years to come will be followed by the proceedings of forthcoming schools). The second volume deals with dynamical chaos in classical and quantum systems, with evolution in chemical systems and self-organisation in biology, and with applications of nonlinear dynamics to condensed matter, sea waves, and astrophysics.

Contenu
I Dynamic Chaos.- Dimensions and Entropies in Multidimensional Systems.- Measurement Methods for Correlation Dimensions.- Quantum Localization of Dynamic Chaos.- Randomness and Predictability in Dynamic Chaos.- Stochastic Vibrational Dynamics of Polyatomic Molecules.- II Evolution.- The Phenomena of Self-Organization in Bacterial Cells and Populations.- The Mechano-Chemical Activity of Cells and Selforganization of Embryonic Patterns.- Drift of a Reverberator in an Active Medium due to the Interaction with Boundaries.- Photochromic and Nonlinear Processes in Bio-Chrom-Br Films.- Engineering of Dynamical Systems for Pattern Recognition and Information Processing.- III Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics.- Nonlinear Phenomena in Condensed Matter: Universe in a Helium Droplet.- Nonlinear Theory of Sea Wave Run-Up.- Superradiance: Approach to Electrodynamics of Continuous Active Media.- The Origin and Evolutionary Dynamics of Uranian Rings.- Index of Contributors.