| Preface | |
| Pattern formation at the cholesteric-isotropic interface | p. 3 |
| Experimental study of the pattern formation of ice crystal grown in supercooled water | p. 14 |
| Computer simulation of mechanical and rheological behavior of two-dimensional random cellular systems | p. 23 |
| Filamentary patterns and rough surfaces | p. 34 |
| Dynamics and structure of an aggregation grown from a diffusion field | p. 47 |
| Phase separation, crystal growth and morphological transitions | p. 57 |
| Domain growth in a system with quenched random impurities | p. 62 |
| Dense-branching morphology of an NH[subscript 4]Cl dendrite | p. 67 |
| Computer simulations of spinodal decomposition in binary fluids | p. 73 |
| Flow effects on DLA I | p. 78 |
| Morphological changes in convection-diffusion limited aggregations | p. 83 |
| Ostwald ripening of precipitates in open subsystems | p. 88 |
| Homogeneous diffusion-limited aggregation including surface-diffusion process | p. 93 |
| Effect of high magnetic fields on fractal growth of metal leaves | p. 98 |
| A simulation of pattern formation by erosion | p. 103 |
| Pattern formation in visco-elastic materials by fluid injection | p. 108 |
| A model of pattern formation in aggregation processes | p. 113 |
| Simulations of three dimensional dendrites | p. 121 |
| Pattern dynamics in an excitable reaction-diffusion system | p. 129 |
| Pattern formation of the ripple phase in bilayer membranes | p. 139 |
| Wave form analysis and computer simulation in chemically driven nonlinear waves | p. 144 |
| On mathematical models of reaction-diffusion processes on catalytic surfaces | p. 171 |
| Rigid rotation and core meandering of spiral waves in reaction-diffusion systems | p. 176 |
| Layer dynamics in lateral inhibition models | p. 178 |
| Hydrodynamic effects induced by chemical wave propagation | p. 191 |
| Numerical studies of target pattern formation in a chaotic medium | p. 201 |
| Analysis of the fractal structure of earthquake size distributions | p. 206 |
| Self-induced vibration of evaporating liquid drop | p. 211 |
| Chemical reaction on Sierpinski gasket | p. 216 |
| Dynamics of wave fronts in excitable media | p. 221 |
| Convection in gasses at elevated pressures | p. 227 |
| Electrohydrodynamic convection in nematics: the homeotropic case | p. 238 |
| Order parameter equations for patterns | p. 247 |
| EHD instability of a nematic under a transverse electric field | p. 255 |
| Nonlocal amplitude equations | p. 263 |
| Stability diagram in electrohydrodynamic convection of nematics | p. 275 |
| Oscillatory instabilities of 2-D periodic pattern in EHD convection | p. 286 |
| Pattern formation of instabilities in spherical Couette flow | p. 298 |
| Theory of transient patterns in the splay Freedericksz transition of nematics | p. 303 |
| Parallels between pattern formation in high-power ferromagnetic resonance and fluid convection | p. 309 |
| Traveling-wave convection in binary fluid mixtures and spatio-temporal structure | p. 314 |
| On the experimental realizability of convection in gas mixtures at moderate positive separation ratios | p. 320 |
| Competing wave lengths in pattern forming systems | p. 325 |
| Time evolution after phase instabilities in the Ginzburg-Landau equation | p. 331 |
| Defect chaos in 2D anisotropic systems | p. 336 |
| Numerical modeling of convective motion in granular materials | p. 341 |
| Phase-slip dynamics in one-dimensional convective systems | p. 346 |
| Analysis of the dimension of space series as a method for the investigation of critical phenomena in the Ginzburg-Landau model | p. 361 |
| Spatiotemporal intermittency: the case of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation | p. 374 |
| Intermittency effects of energy cascade and passive scalar fields | p. 387 |
| Mechanism of vortex reconnection | p. 400 |
| Multiaffinity in surface growth and turbulence | p. 407 |
| Stochastic patterns of wave turbulence | p. 416 |
| Self-similar structure of an accumulated expansion rate in the Taconis oscillation system | p. 423 |
| Using thermal noise to measure the correlation lengths of electroconvection | p. 429 |
| Transient multimodality, and frequency and noise dependences in T1-T2 transition | p. 435 |
| Dynamics of annihilation process of +1 and -1 disclinations | p. 448 |
| Experiments on pattern-forming semiconductor systems | p. 456 |
| Bloch-type modeling and periodic-orbit analysis of laser dynamics | p. 461 |
| Coupled map lattice model for boiling | p. 466 |
| Soliton oscillation and spatiotemporal chaos in parametric excitation of surface waves with large aspect ratio | p. 471 |
| Neural network model carrying phase information | p. 477 |
| Nonequilibrium systems with self-organized boundaries | p. 493 |
| Filaments in liquid crystals: structure and dynamics | p. 504 |
| Soliton trains in annular long Josephson junctions: experimental study | p. 519 |
| Nonlinear oscillation at membrane and interface | p. 529 |
| Experimental evidence of Bekki Nozaki holes | p. 538 |
| Dynamics of pattern formation in binary fluids with amphiphilic molecules | p. 551 |
| Hole dynamics of one-dimensional plasma | p. 556 |
| Double hierarchy and fractal energy function of the discommensuration structures | p. 559 |
| Segregation of modified membrane proteins in phospholipid membrane induced by thermodynamical changes | p. 564 |
| Turbulence in a box | p. 571 |
| Relative stability in single and multiple variable chemical systems | p. 572 |
| Topological defects and mechanism of transition to weak turbulence | p. 573 |
| The interaction of 2-dimensional localized solutions near a weakly inverted bifurcation | p. 574 |
| Phase defects in travelling wave | p. 575 |
| Fluctuations, correlations and noise in a diffusion-reaction process | p. 576 |
| Spiral dynamics in chemical and biological excitable systems | p. 577 |
| Chaotic travelling waves in coupled map lattices | p. 578 |
| Author index | p. 579 |
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