Nonlinear Waves and Pattern Dynamics

This bookaddresses thefascinating phenomenaassociated withnonlinear waves and spatio-temporal patterns. Theseappear almost everywhere in nature from sand bed forms to brain patterns, andyet theirunderstanding still presents fundamental scientific challenges. The reader will learn here, in particular,about the current state-of-the art and new results in: Nonlinear water waves: resonance, solitons, focusing, Bose-Einstein condensation, as wellasand their relevance for thesea environment (sea-wind interaction, sand bed forms, fiber clustering) Pattern formation in non-equilibrium media: soap films,chimera patterns in oscillating media, viscoelasticCouette-Taylor flow, flow in the wake behind a heated cylinder, other pattern formation. The editors and authors dedicate this book to the memory of Alexander Ezersky, Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Caen Normandie (France) from September 2007 to July 2016. Before 2007, he had served as a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia).The chaptershave beenwritten by leading scientists in Nonlinear Physics,and the topics chosenso as to cover all the fields to which Prof. Ezersky himself contributed,by means ofexperimental, theoretical and numerical approaches. Thevolume willappealto advanced students and researchersstudying nonlinear waves and pattern dynamics, as well as other scientists interested intheir applications invarious natural media.