Random Fluctuations and Pattern Growth Experiments and Models [Hardcover]

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Carg?se, Corsica, France, 18-31 July, 1988 Contents .- Course 1: Random Fluctuations and Transport.- Some Themes and Common Tools.- Structure, Elasticity and Thermal Properties of Silica Networks.- Anomalous Diffusion and Fractons in Disordered Structures.- Fractons in Real Fractals.- Anomalous Transport in Disordered Structures: Effect of Additional Disorder.- Information Exponents for Transport in Regular Lattices and Fractals.- Anomalous Transport in Random Linear Structures.- Course 2: Random Growth Patterns: Aggregation.- Morphological Transitions in Pattern Growth Phenomena.- Visualization and Characterization of Microparticle Growth Patterns.- Origin of Fractal Roughness in Synthetic and Natural Materials.- Electrodeposition.- Course 3: Random Fluctuations in Fluid Systems.- Flow Patterns in Porous Media.- Viscous Fingering in a Circular Geometry.- Construction of a Radial Hele-Shaw Cell.- Growth and Viscous Fingers on Percolating Porous Media.- Structure of Miscible and Immiscible Displacement Fronts in Porous Media.- Dynamics of Invasion Percolation.- Course 4: Random Fluctuations in Liquid Crystals.- Directional Solidification of Liquid Crystals.- Interfacial Instabilities of Condensed Phase Domains in Lipid Monolayers.- Pattern Formation of Molecules Adsorbing on Lipid Monolayers.- Course 5: Random Fluctuations in Solid Materials.- to Dense Branching Morphology.- The Material Factors Leading to Dense Branching Morphology in Al:Ge Thin Films.- Theoretical Aspects of Polycrystalline Pattern Growth in Al/Ge Films.- Pattern Formation in Dendritic Solidification.- Relaxation of Excitations in Porous Solids.- Soap BubblesA Simple Model System for Solids.- Course 6: Fracture of Disordered Solids.- to Modern Ideas on Fracture Patterns.- Rupture in Random Media.- Fracture Experiments on Monolayers of Microspheres.- Simple Models for Colloidal Aggregation, Dielectric Breakdown and Mechanical Breakdown Patternsl3–