Dissipative structures in transport processes and combustion. Interdisciplinary seminar, Bielefeld, July 17-21, 1989 (Q1188912)

Dissipative structures play an important role in the turbulent transport process and combustion. The combustion phenomenon is a quite complicated nonlinear spread process of the turbulent flame, which can not be characterized by a simple linear mathematical modelling. The proceedings of the interdisciplinary seminar held at Bielefeld, tried to interact with different approaches, such as Navier-Stokes equations in turbulence, Ginzburg-Landau equations in the instability theory, cellular automaton, synergetics, fractal concept and chaos analysis as well as catastrophe theory etc. to analysis and solving this complex dynamics of turbulent flame propagation in chemical combustion and related problems. This volume also reflects the active frontier in the combustion science, which involves in the whole chemical process of turbulent flame from the beginning of ignition to the end of extinction. The volume will be surely beneficial to those readers, who want to trace the development of the research in dynamics of turbulent combustion phenomena (such as the instability and transition of the flame interfaces, the diffusion flame stabilization, the turbulent combustion and flame propagation, the reaction-diffusion of the chemical combustion process, ignition/extinction phenomena, nonisothermal autocatalator for complex oscillation and chaos in chemical reactions, etc...) with help of mathematical methods and newest concepts in hydrodynamics, chemical kinetics and dynamical systems.