Growth Patterns in Physical Sciences and Biology

By: Jaun-Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (Editor), Enrique Louis (Editor), P. Meakin (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 August 1993

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Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Granada, Spain, October 1991, with the objective of bringing together physicists and biologists with a common interest in pattern growth and in applying new tools across the areas of their disciplines to explore the similarities and difference

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Fractal Growth and Morphological Change in Bacterial Colony Formation	p. 1
Interfacial Pattern Formation in Biological Systems: Preliminary Observations During Growth of Bacterial Colonies	p. 11
Amoebae Aggregation in Dictyoselium Discoideum	p. 21
The Fractal Nature of Common Patterns	p. 29
Study of Self-Affine Fractal Surfaces with STM	p. 37
Dynamic Scaling in Surface Growth Phenomena	p. 45
MBE Growth and Surface Diffusion	p. 57
Growth in Systems with Quenched Disorder	p. 65
Kinetic Roughening with Algebraically Distributed Noise Amplitudes or Waiting Times	p. 77
Anomalous Surface Roughening: Experiment and Models	p. 85
Waiting-Time Formulation of Surface Growth and Mapping to Directed Polymers in a Random Medium	p. 99
Scaling Far From Thermal Equilibrium	p. 109
Discrete Potential Flow Simulation of a Premixed Flame Front	p. 119
Fractal Landscapes in Physics and Biology	p. 127
Interface Kinetics and Oscillatory Growth in Directional Solidification of Binary Mixtures	p. 137
Locally Interacting Cell Systems as Models for Carcinogenesis	p. 143
Ionic Concentration and Electric Field in Fractal Electrodeposition	p. 153
Properties of the Morphologies Envelope in a Diffusion Limited Growth	p. 163
Growth Patterns in Zinc Electrodeposition	p. 173
Natural Viscous Fingering	p. 183
Fibonacci Sequences in Diffusion-Limited Aggregation	p. 191
Pattern Formation in Screened Electrostatic Fields: Growth in a Channel and in Two Dimensions	p. 203
Self Organized Criticality in Simple Growth Models	p. 213
Scaling Properties of Average Diffusion Limited Aggregation Clusters	p. 221
Topological Considerations on Finger Dynamics in the Saffman-Taylor Problem	p. 225
Adaptive Cluster Growth Models	p. 233
The Double Layer Impedance at Self-Similar Surfaces	p. 245
Multifractals	p. 257
Angiogenesis and Vascular Networks: Complex Anatomies from Deterministic Non-Linear Physiologies	p. 267
Mechanisms of Biological Pattern Formation and Constraints Imposed by Growth	p. 277
Growth Patterns in Fracture	p. 289
On the Stability of Growth with a Threshold	p. 299
Evidence for Universality in Transients	p. 307
Micelles and Foams: 2-D Manifolds Arising from Local Interactions	p. 315
Simulating Radiate Accretive Growth Using Iterative Geometric Constructions	p. 331
Phyllotaxis as a Self-Organized Growth Process	p. 341
Multiplicative Noise in Domain Growth: Stochastic Ginzburg-Landau Equations	p. 353
Bursting Intermittency and Microwave Popcorn: Comments on the "Reporting Out" of Neuron-Like Firing Behavior	p. 363
Order, Pattern Selection and Noise in Low Dimensional Systems	p. 373
Pattern Formation in Extended Continuous Systems	p. 381
Role of Catalysis on the Evolution of Error-Prone Self-Replicative Molecules	p. 393
Molecular Quasi-Species in Hopfield Replication Landscapes	p. 401
Effects of Noise on Self-Organized Critical Phenomena	p. 407
The Practical Measurement of Fractal Parameters	p. 417
Index	p. 425
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