Cellular Structures in Instabilities: Proceedings of the Meeting “Structures cellulaires dans les instabilités - périodicité, défauts, turbulence de phase” Held at Gif-sur-Yvette, France, June 20–22,1983

Edited By J.e. Wesfreid And S. Zaleski. Organized In Coordination With The Steering Committee Of The Chaos Divisional Meeting Of The French Society Of Physics (grenoble 1983)--pref. Includes Bibliographies. Cellular structures in instabilities : An introduction....Pages 1-32 Rayleigh-Benard instability : Experimental study of the wavenumber selection....Pages 33-42 Wavelength selection and pattern localization in buckling problems....Pages 43-55 Wavenumber selection in buckling experiments....Pages 56-62 Effect of boundaries on periodic patterns....Pages 63-74 Cell number selection in Taylor-Couette flow....Pages 75-83 Wavelength selection through boundaries in 1-D cellular structures....Pages 84-103 Wavenumber selection in Rayleigh-Benard convective structure....Pages 104-126 Convection patterns in large aspect ratio systems....Pages 127-128 Three dimensional convective structttres in a horizontal or tilted porous layer....Pages 129-136 Modelisation and simulation of convection in extended geometry....Pages 137-155 Pattern evolution from convective and electrohydrodynamic instabilities....Pages 156-159 Amplitude equations for non linear convection in high vertical channels....Pages 160-171 Stability of cellular systems in Taylor-Couette instability....Pages 172-176 Spatial dissipative structures and hydrodynamic instabilities....Pages 177-184 Chemical structures far from equilibrium....Pages 185-196 Structure defects in Benard-Marangoni instability....Pages 197-206 Non adiabatic phenomena in cellular structures....Pages 207-214 Smectics : A model for dynamical systems?....Pages 215-248 Defects and interactions with the structures in ehd convection in nematic liquid crystals....Pages 249-262 Quantitative study pf the disorganization of hexagonal convective structures....Pages 263-269 Shear modes in low-prandtl thermal convection....Pages 270-277 Spatial instabilities and temporal chaos....Pages 278-284 Temporal and spatial aspects of the onset of chaos in a Taylor instability subjected to a magnetic field....Pages 285-293 Electro-hydro-dynamical convective structures and transitions to chaos in a liquid crystal....Pages 294-306 Rotating disk flows, transition to turbulence....Pages 307-318 Morphological instabilities in the solidification front of binary mixtures....Pages 319-330 Cellular structures on premixed flames in a uniform laminar flow....Pages 331-341 Energy in the Benard-Rayleigh problem....Pages 342-350 Modelisation of thermoconvective instabilities in saturated porous media- lateral boundary influence....Pages 351-357 Competition between marangoni and archimedean forces, to determine the surface profile of a liquid heated, open to air....Pages 358-370 Surface relief accompanying natural convection in liquid layers heated from below....Pages 371-375 On the subject of Gortler vortex....Pages 376-384