Papers
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Books
Active Matter Within and Around Us
From Self-Propelled Particles to Flocks and Living Forms
Springer Verlag, The Frontiers Collection, 2021
This book book presents a comprehensive review of various aspects of the novel and rapidly developing field of active matter, which encompasses a wide variety of self-organized self-driven energy-consuming media or agents. Most naturally occurring examples are of biological origin, spanning all scales from intracellular structures to swimming and crawling cells and microorganisms to living tissues to bacterial colonies to flocks
of birds, but the field also encompasses artificial systems, from colloids to soft robots. Intrinsically out of equilibrium and free of constraints of time-reversal symmetry, such systems display a range of surprising and unusual behaviors. In this book, the author emphasizes connections between fluid-mechanical, material,
biological and technological aspects of active matter. He employs a minimum of mathematical tools, ensuring that the presentation is accessible to a wider scientific community. Richly illustrated, it gives the reader a clear picture of this fascinating field, its diverse phenomena and its open questions.
Working with Dynamical Systems
A Toolbox for Scientists and Engineers
Taylor & Francis, 2021
This book provides working tools for the study and design of nonlinear dynamical systems applicable in physics and engineering. It offers a broad-based introduction to this challenging area of study, taking an applications-oriented approach that emphasizes qualitative analysis and approximations
rather than formal mathematics or simulation. The author makes extensive use of examples and includes executable Mathematica notebooks that may be used to generate new examples as hands-on exercises. The coverage includes discussion of mechanical models, chemical and ecological interactions, nonlinear oscillations and chaos, forcing and synchronization, spatial patterns and waves.
Key Features:
– Written for a broad audience, avoiding dependence on mathematical formulations in favor of qualitative, constructive treatment.
– Extensive use of physical and engineering applications.
– Incorporates Mathematica notebooks for simulations and hands-on self-study.
– Provides a gentle but rigorous introduction to real-world nonlinear problems.
– Features a final chapter dedicated to applications of dynamical systems to spatial patterns.
The book is aimed at student and researchers in applied mathematics and mathematical modelling of physical and engineering problems. It teaches to see common features in systems of different origins, and to apply common methods of study without losing sight of complications and uncertainties related to their physical origin.
Morphogenesis Deconstructed
An Integrated View of the Generation of Forms
Springer Verlag, The Frontiers Collection, 2020
This book is about morphogenesis as the genesis of forms. Thus it is not restricted to plants growing from seed or animals developing from an embryo (although these do supply most abundant examples) but also addresses kindred processes, from inorganic to social to biomorphic technology. It is about our morphogenetic universe: unplanned, unfair and frustratingly complicated but benevolent in allowing us to emerge, survive, and inquire into its laws.
The Swings of Science
From Complexity to Simplicity and back
Springer Verlag, 2018
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319997766
This book is a personal account of some aspects of the emergence of modern science, mostly from the viewpoint of those branches of physics which provided the much needed paradigm shift of “more is different” that heralded the advent of complexity science as an antidote to the purely reductionist approach in fundamental physics. It is also about the humans that have helped to shape these developments, including personal reminiscences and the realization that the so-called exact sciences are inevitably also a social endeavor with all its facets. This erudite ramble is meant to be neither comprehensive nor systematic, but its generous insights will give the inquisitive academically trained mind a better understanding of what science, and physics in particular, could or should be about.
Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics
Springer Verlag, 2006
Series in Synergetics
http://www.springer.com/physics/book/978-3-540-30430-2
Spontaneous pattern formation in nonlinear dissipative systems far from equilibrium is a paradigmatic case of emergent behaviour associated with complex systems. It is encountered in a great variety of settings, both in nature and technology, and has numerous applications ranging from nonlinear optics through solid and fluid mechanics, physical chemistry and chemical engineering to biology. Nature creates its variety of forms through spontaneous pattern formation and self-assembly, and this strategy is likely to be imitated by future biomorphic technologies. This book is a first-hand account by one of the leading players in this field, which gives in-depth descriptions of analytical methods elucidating the complex evolution of nonlinear dissipative systems, and brings the reader to the forefront of current research. The introductory chapter on the theory of dynamical systems is written with a view to applications of its powerful methods to spatial and spatio-temporal patterns. It is followed by two chapters treating moving interfaces, based largely on reaction-diffusion and phase-separating systems. The following two chapters on amplitude equations for patterns and waves describe universal phenomena generated by representative equations which can be derived for a variety of non-equilibrium systems originating in fluid mechanics, physical chemistry or nonlinear optics. This book addresses graduate students and non-specialists from the many related areas of applied mathematics, physical chemistry, chemical engineering and biology, as well as the seasoned scientist in search of a modern source of reference.
Vortices in Nonlinear Fields
From liquid crystals to superfluids,
From non-equilibrium patterns to cosmic strings
Oxford University Press, 1999
International Series of Monographs on Physics, v.100
ISBN 0 19 850167 6 http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-850167-6
Symmetry breaking is responsible for the astounding variety of natural phenomena derived from a few simple and symmetric basic laws. An ordered state formed as a result of a symmetry-breaking transition in an extended system contains, as a rule, topological defects, and dynamics of further evolution is determined to a large extent by the dynamics of defects.
The book is centered on the dynamics of vortices – a most common variety of defects. The book considers from a unified point of view the structure and dynamics of vortices in a variety of nonlinear field models with spontaneously broken symmetry. Point vortices or vortex lines correspond, in different physical settings, to quantized vortices in superfluids or superconductors, dislocations in non-equilibrium patterns, rotating spiral waves, disclinations in liquid crystals, singularities in optical fields or strings in relativistic field theories. The study of vortex dynamics is largely motivated by our interest in the phenomenon of weak turbulence which can be understood in terms of motion and interaction of stable localized structures: defects in the prevailing ordered state.
The book is unique in its multidisciplinary scope, and at the same time is self-contained and methodically unified. The emphasis is on analytical methods that allow to gain understanding of the common theoretical structure of defect dynamics in various applications. In each particular setting, the effort is made to describe material from different fields in common language and at the same time to justify a physical model at a certain level of approximation.
Chemical Engineering of Heterogeneous Catalysis
I.I.Ioffe and L.M.Pismen, Khimia, Moscow, 1972 (in Russian)
https://www.twirpx.com/file/1582548/
German translation: Akademie-Verlag, Berlin,1975
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cite.330480429
Email: pismen@technion.ac.il
Phone: 972-4-8293086
Fax: 972-4-8230476
Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000, Israel