New Visions on Form and Growth: Fingered Growth, Dendrites, and Flames

by Pierre Pelcï, Jasna Brujic, Laurent Costier

Overview

There exists a wide variety of patterns in nature, from inert matter such as crystalline dendrites and flames, to filamentous fungi and neurones in the living world. Their structural evolution during growth can be theoretically modeled in order to predict the shape of their forms, their dimensions and their growth rate. New Visions on Growth and Form aims at answering such questions by employing different theoretical approaches and providing a critical appraisal.
The book is part of the wide field of non-equilibrium statistical physics, and explores different mechanisms such as transport, interfacial tension, and chemical reactions, which govern the growth of a material. It explains the fundamental equations relating different morphological quantities, as well as the relevant experimental control parameters. From the unifying concepts arising in the theoretical approach the author proposes a tentative description of cell morphogenesis as a further application of the theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198527015
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/04/2004
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

The author, Pierre Pelce, is Director of Research (CNRS) at the University of Provence, Marseille, France. The translators, Jasna Brujic and Laurent Costier, are members of the Polymers and Colloids Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Surface tension3. First order phase transition kinetics4. Chemical reactions5. Simple forms6. First instabilities7. Forms without surface tension8. Pattern formation and growth rate9. Stability of a curved form10. Evolution of forms11. Stochastic growth forms12. Towards morphogenesisAuthor indexSubject index