Cellular Structures in Instabilities: Proceedings of the Meeting “Structures cellulaires dans les instabilités — périodicité, défauts, turbulence de phase” Held at Gif-sur-Yvette, France, June 20–22, 1983: Lecture Notes in Physics, cartea 210

Cellular structures in instabilities : An introduction.- Rayleigh-Benard instability : Experimental study of the wavenumber selection.- Wavelength selection and pattern localization in buckling problems.- Wavenumber selection in buckling experiments.- Effect of boundaries on periodic patterns.- Cell number selection in Taylor-Couette flow.- Wavelength selection through boundaries in 1-D cellular structures.- Wavenumber selection in Rayleigh-Benard convective structure.- Convection patterns in large aspect ratio systems.- Three dimensional convective structttres in a horizontal or tilted porous layer.- Modelisation and simulation of convection in extended geometry.- Pattern evolution from convective and electrohydrodynamic instabilities.- Amplitude equations for non linear convection in high vertical channels.- Stability of cellular systems in Taylor-Couette instability.- Spatial dissipative structures and hydrodynamic instabilities.- Chemical structures far from equilibrium.- Structure defects in Benard-Marangoni instability.- Non adiabatic phenomena in cellular structures.- Smectics : A model for dynamical systems?.- Defects and interactions with the structures in ehd convection in nematic liquid crystals.- Quantitative study pf the disorganization of hexagonal convective structures.- Shear modes in low-prandtl thermal convection.- Spatial instabilities and temporal chaos.- Temporal and spatial aspects of the onset of chaos in a Taylor instability subjected to a magnetic field.- Electro-hydro-dynamical convective structures and transitions to chaos in a liquid crystal.- Rotating disk flows, transition to turbulence.- Morphological instabilities in the solidification front of binary mixtures.- Cellular structures on premixed flames in a uniform laminar flow.- Energy inthe Benard-Rayleigh problem.- Modelisation of thermoconvective instabilities in saturated porous media- lateral boundary influence.- Competition between marangoni and archimedean forces, to determine the surface profile of a liquid heated, open to air.- Surface relief accompanying natural convection in liquid layers heated from below.- On the subject of Gortler vortex.