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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