Coherent Structures in Complex Systems: Selected Papers of the XVII Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics Held a Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 5–9 June 2000Author: David Reguera, José Miguel Rubí, Luis López Bonilla Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-41705-7 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44698-2Table of Contents:Description and Dynamics of Vortical Structures of Turbulence Self-Sustaining Mechanisms of Wall Turbulence The Largest Scales in Turbulent Flow: The Structures of the Wall Layer Patterning and Transition to Turbulence in Subcritical Systems: The Case of Plane Couette Flow Effects of the Upstream Conditions on the Mean Statistics of Turbulent Boundary Layers with Zero Pressure Gradient Evolution of the Large-Scale Structures in the ‘Far-Field’ of Turbulent Shear Flows Quantum Kinetic Model of Turbulence The Transport of Small Particles by a Fluid Nonlinear Dynamics of Wrinkled Premixed Flames and Related Statistical Problems Experimental Studies of Laminar Flame Instabilities Gaseous Detonations The Vortical Structure of Flame Spreading over Liquid Fuels Applications of Mathematical Modelling to Biological Pattern Formation The Artistry of Bacterial Colonies and the Antibiotic Crisis Periodicity in Age-Resolved Populations Nonequilibrium Nanostructures in Condensed Reactive Systems Pattern Formation in Electric Discharges Evidence for Eigenfrequencies in Dendritic Growth Dynamics Patterns in the Bulk and at the Interface of Liquid Crystals Inviscid Two-Dimensional Fluid Dynamics Experiments with Magnetized Electron Columns, Includes bibliographical references and index