Surface effects in nonlinear distributed systems: slow relaxation and spontaneous emergence of localized coherent modes

This book focuses on recent and significant research on non-linear, or chaotic behaviour which in real world systems has been reported in electronic circuits and communications systems, chemical reactions, biological behaviour. Applications include solitons, integrable systems, cellular automata, pattern formation, qualitative structure and bifurcation theory, onset of chaos and turbulence, analytic dynamics, and transport phenomena.