Nonlinear Evolution of Spatio-Temporal Structures in Dissipative Continuous Systems

Nonlinear Dynamics in Simple Fluids.- Spatial and Dynamical Properties of 1-D Rayleigh-Bénard Convection.- Dimensions and Lyapunov Spectra from Measured Time Series of Taylor-Couette Flow.- Dynamical Behaviour of Taylor Vortices with Superimposed Axial Flow.- Externally Modulated Hydrodynamic Systems.- Sideband Instability of Waves With Periodic Boundary Conditions.- Transition to Chaos in Non-Parallel Two-Dimensional Flow in a Channel.- Drifting Convection Rolls Induced by Spatial Modulation.- Convection in a Rotating Cylindrical Annulus with Rigid Boundaries.- Binary Fluid Convection.- Complex Demodulation Techniques for Experiments on Traveling-Wave Convection.- Convection in Binary Liquids with Soret Effect: What we can learn from Laser Doppler Velocimetry Experiments.- Boundary Layer Analysis of Traveling Waves in Binary Convection.- Nonlinear Convection in Binary Mixtures.- Structure and Dynamics of Nonlinear Convective States in Binary Fluid Mixtures.- Onset of Soret and Dufour Driven Convection in Binary Fluid Mixtures.- Experimental Study of Binary Fluid Convection in a Quasi 1-Dimensional Cell without Reflections from the Sidewalls.- Two-Phase Flows.- Interfacial Oscillations and Solitons Driven by the Marangoni Effect.- Couette Flows, Rollers, Emulsions, Tall Taylor Cells, Phase Separation and Inversion, and a Chaotic Bubble in Taylor-Couette Flow of Two Immiscible Liquids.- Traveling Waves in a Partly Solidified Mixture.- Localized Structures and Defects.- Phase-Mean Drift Equation for Convection Patterns in Large Aspect Ratio Containers.- Modulated Traveling Waves in Nonequilibrium Systems.- Confined States in Phase Dynamics.- Small-Scale Excitations in Large Systems.- Bound States of Interacting Localized Structures.- Nonlinear Dynamics of Particle-LikeStates of Multidimensional Fields.- Caustics of Nonlinear Waves and Related Questions.- Phase Dynamics and Propagation of Dislocations.- Nonlinear Dynamics in Reacting Fluids, Nematics, and Solids.- Spirals in Excitable Chemical Media: From Archimedian to Non-Archimedian Geometry.- Chemical Pattern Dynamics by Chemically Induced Hydrodynamic Flow.- Stability of Travelling Waves in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction.- The Formation and Propagation of Fronts at the Electric Field Induced Bend Fredericksz Transition.- The Dynamics of Transient Structures in the Fredericksz Transition.- Sideband Instability of Modulated Traveling Wave Convection.- Spatial Instabilities and Defect Ordering in Solids.- Mutual Interplay Between the Break-up of Spatial Order and the Onset of Low-Dimensional Temporal Chaos in an Exemplary Semiconductor System.- Electroconvection in a Freely Suspended Film of Smectic A Liquid Crystal.- Symmetry, Resonance, and Chaos.- Symmetry Breaking in Nonlinear Convection.- Chaos and the Effect of Noise for the Double Hopf Bifurcation with 2:1 Resonance.- Codimension 2 Bifurcation in Binary Convection With Square Symmetry.- Dynamics of Slowly Varying Wavetrains in Finite Geometry.- Kinks and Solitons in the Generalized Ginzburg-Landau Equation.- Onset of Chaos in the Generalized Ginzburg-Landau Equation.- Turbulence and Linear Stability in a Discrete Ginzburg-Landau Model.- On the Stability of Parametrically Excited Standing Waves.- Nonlinear Problems of Crystal Growth and Front Propagation.- Directional Solidification of Transparent Eutectic Alloys.- Directional Solidification of a Faceted Crystal.- Routes to Cell Formation and Hidden Ramps in Directional Solidification.- Influence of an External Periodic Flow on Dendritic Crystal Growth.- Pattern Growth: From Smooth Interfaces to Fractal Structures.- The Printer’s Instability: The Dynamical Regimes of Directional Viscous Fingering.- Front Propagation into Unstable States: Some Recent Developments and Surprises.- Structures in Turbulent Flows.- Collapsing Solutions in the 3-D Euler Equations.- Large Magnetic Reynolds Number Dynamo Action in Steady Spatially Periodic Flows.- On Spatial Structure of Kolmogorov Spectra of Weak Turbulence.- Spatiotemporal Intermittency.- On the Scale-Invariant Theory of Developed Hydrodynamic Turbulence Kolmogorov Type.- Contributors.