Ramon G. Rubio • Yuri S. Ryazantsev Victor M. Starov • Guo-Xiang Huang Alexander P. Chetverikov • Paolo Arena Alex A. Nepomnyashchy • Alberto Ferras Eugene G. Morozov Editors

Without Bounds: A Scientific Canvas of Nonlinearity and Complex Dynamics

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Contents

Part I Personal Reminiscences

M.G. Velarde: Succint Biography. Doing Science in Spain as a Maverick 3 Yu.S. Ryazantsev

M.G. Velarde: Highlights of Research Achievements 7 Yu.S. Ryazantsev

Gallery of Portraits and Other Pictures 11 M.G. Velarde

Thirteen Years of Collaboration with Manuel on Complexity in Biorobotics and Brain Science 29 P. Arena

My Relation with Professor Manuel G. Velarde 39 X.-L. Chu

My Scientific and Personal Relation with Manuel G. Velarde 43 E. del Rio

Manolo Garcia Velarde: Three Relevant Traits of His Multifaceted Persona 45 F. Mayor-Zaragoza

Reminiscences from an Expatriate Scientist 47 С Montes

An Extraordinary Year of My Life 49 A. Ye. Rednikov

Reminiscence of My Time in Manuel's Group at the Instituto Pluridisciplinar 53 A. Wierschem

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My Year with Manuel 55 W. Zimmerman

Our Adventure with Manuel 59 W. Zimmerman

Part II Scientific Contributions: Flows, Instabilities and Convective Patterns

A Peculiar Observation Arising from the Stokes Approximation in Certain Closed Flows 65 W. Guo, R. Narayanan, and G. Labrosse

Influence of Periodic and Quasi-periodic Gravitational Modulation on Convective Instability of Reaction Fronts in Porous Media 71 K. Allali and M. Belhaq

Genesis of Benard-Marangoni Patterns in Thin Liquid Films Drying into Air 95 P. Colinet, F. Chauvet, and S. Dehaeck

Pattern Formation Emerging from Stationary Solutal Marangoni Instability: A Roadmap Through the Underlying Hierarchic Structures 105 H. Linde, К. Schwarzenberger, and K. Eckert

Observation of the Thermocapillary Motion of a Droplet in a Laser Beam 123 P. Lopez, Yu.S. Ryazantsev, R.G. Rubio, F. Ortega, M.G. Velarde, and J.M. Redondo

Influence of Heat Flux Modulation on Thermocapillary Instability in a Binary Mixture with the Soret Effect 133 LS. Fayzrakhmanova, S. Shklyaev, and A.A. Nepomnyashchy

Onset of Stationary Flows of a Cohesive Granular Material in a Channel 145 A. de Ryck and O. Louisnard

Part III Scientific Contributions: Interfacial Phenomena, Wetting and Spreading Problems

Thermography Applied to Interfacial Phenomena, Potentials and Pitfalls 157 M. Antoni and K. Sefiane

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Shear Rheology of Interfaces: Micro Rheological Methods 183 A.J. Mendoza, R.C. Jordan, F.M. Pedrero, H. Agogo, R.G. Rubio, F. Ortega, and M.G. Velarde

Cohesive and Non-cohesive Adsorption of Surfactants at Liquid Interfaces 199 R.I. Slavchov, I.M. Dimitrova, and LB. Ivanov

Surface Wetting: From a Phenomenon to an Important Analytical Tool 227 V. Dutschk

Wetting Transition and Line Tension of Oil on Water 259 H. Matsubara and M. Aratono

Dynamics of a Complete Wetting Liquid Under Evaporation 275 C.-T. Pham, F. Lequeux, and L. Limat

Evaporation of Sessile Droplets of Liquid on Solid Substrates 285 S. Semenov, V.M. Starov, M.G. Velarde, and R.G. Rubio

Superspreading: Role of the Substrate Surface Energy 301 A. Nikolov and D. Wasan

Part IV Scientific Contributions: Waves and Solitons, and Other Collective Excitations

Coupled Korteweg-de Vries Equations 317 R. Grimshaw

Water Waves and Time Arrows in Conservative Continuum Physics 335 P.A. Tyvand

Surface Wave Damping 349 M.A. Herrada, J.M. Montanero, and J.M. Vega

Shadowgraph Contrast of Internal Wave Trains During Absorption 363 A. Wierschem and H. Linde

Formation of Mach-Stems on Shock Fronts and Cellular Detonations 371 P. Clavin

Cavity Solitons , 395 L.A. Lugiato, F Prati, M. Brambilla, L. Columbo, S. Barland, G. Tissoni, K.M. Aghdami, R. Kheradmand, H. Tajalli, and H. Vahed

Three-Wave Backward Optical Solitons 405 С. Montes, P. Aschieri, A. Picozzi, С Durniak, and M. Taki

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Rivulet Structures in Falling Liquid Films 435 B. Scheid

Towards a Theory of Degenerated Solectrons in Doped Lattices: Problems and Perspectives 443 A.P. Chetverikov, W. Ebeling, and M.G. Velarde

Surfing Electrons in Quantum Computers? 467 Y. Pomeau

Collective Excitations in Superfluid Fermi Gases in the BCS-BEC Crossover 473 G.-X. Huang

PartV Scientific Contributions: Complex Dynamics and Stochastic Dynamics

Toward a Complex Systems Approach to Information 517 G. Nicolis and C. Nicolis

Information-Theoretical Complexity Analysis of Selected Elementary Chemical Reactions 525 M. Molina-Espfritu, R.O. Esquivel, and J.S. Dehesa

Stochastic Oscillators 539 VS. Anishchenko, Т.Е. Vadivasova, A.V Feoktistov, and G.I. Strelkova

PDEs in Moving Time Dependent Domains 559 F. Cortez and A. Rodriguez-Bernal

Asymptotic Scaling for Euclidean Lattices 579 R.A. Garza-Lopez and J.J. Kozak

Part VI Scientific Contributions: Bio- and Neuro-physical Problems

Present Day Biology seen in the Looking Glass of Physics of Complexity 589 P. Schuster

Dissipative Structures and Biological Evolution 623 E.J. Brändas

Nonlinear Models for Protein Folding and Function 635 L. Cruzeiro

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Study of Cardiac Defibrillation Through Numerical Simulations 647 J. Bragard, S. Marin, E.M. Cherry, and F.H. Fenton

Morphogenesis and Complexity of the Tumor Patterns 657 E. Izquierdo-Kulich and J.M. Nieto-Villar

Quantitative Neuroimaging: What You can Say and What You can Believe About the Brain 693 M. Desco

Part VII Scientific Contributions: Geophysical Flows and Other Geo-problems

Strong Flows of Bottom Water in Abyssal Channels of the Atlantic 707 E.G. Morozov

Global Climate Change and Local Severe Weather Phenomena: Is There a Possible Synthesis Among These Apparent Antitheses? F. StelandD.B. Giaiotti

A Time-Space Description of the Analysis Produced by a Data Assimilation Method K.P. Belyaev and C.A.S. Tanajura

Challenges of Biomass in a Development Model Based on Renewable Energies F. Cuadros, A. Gonzalez-Gonzalez, A. Ruiz-Celma, F Lopez-Rodriguez, J. Garcia-Sanz-Calcedo, J. Antonio Garcia, and A. Mena

Part VIII Science for the Lay Audience

Swings of Science: From Complexity to Simplicity and Back 771 L.M. Pismen

A Decade of Science for the People in Spain 789 M.G. Velarde

A Decade of Hands-on Science at the Schools of Friul (Udine, Province, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia): Toccare l'aria e sentire la terra tremare 797 M.G. Velarde

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