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A rich variety of real-life physical problems which are still poorly understood are of a nonlinear nature. Examples include turbulence, granular flows, detonations and flame propagation, fracture dynamics, and a wealth of new biological and chemical phenomena which are being discovered. Particularly interesting among the manifestations of nonlinearity are coherent structures. This book contains reviews and contributions reporting on the state of the art regarding the role of coherent structures and patterns in nonlinear science.

Turbulence
Description and Dynamics of Vortical Structures of Turbulence	p. 3
Self-Sustaining Mechanisms of Wall Turbulence	p. 17
The Largest Scales in Turbulent Flow: The Structures of the Wall Layer	p. 39
Patterning and Transition to Turbulence in Subcritical Systems: The Case of Plane Couette Flow	p. 58
Effects of the Upstream Conditions on the Mean Statistics of Turbulent Boundary Layers with Zero Pressure Gradient	p. 80
Evolution of the Large-Scale Structures in the `Far-Field' of Turbulent Shear Flows	p. 92
Quantum Kinetic Model of Turbulence	p. 103
The Transport of Small Particles by a Fluid Armando Babiano, Julyan H.E. Cartwright, Oreste Piro	p. 114
Combustion
Nonlinear Dynamics of Wrinkled Premixed Flames and Related Statistical Problems	p. 127
Experimental Studies of Laminar Flame Instabilities	p. 159
Gaseous Detonations	p. 182
The Vortical Structure of Flame Spreading over Liquid Fuels Francisco J. Higuera	p. 190
Patterns in Biology, Chemical Reactions and Fluid Flow
Applications of Mathematical Modelling to Biological Pattern Formation	p. 205
The Artistry of Bacterial Colonies and the Antibiotic Crisis	p. 218
Periodicity in Age-Resolved Populations	p. 242
Nonequilibrium Nanostructures in Condensed Reactive Systems	p. 252
Pattern Formation in Electric Discharges	p. 270
Evidence for Eigenfrequencies in Dendritic Growth Dynamics	p. 283
Patterns in the Bulk and at the Interface of Liquid Crystals	p. 298
Inviscid Two-Dimensional Fluid Dynamics Experiments with Magnetized Electron Columns	p. 319
Interaction of Nearly-Inviscid, Multi-mode Faraday Waves and Mean Flows	p. 328
Stationary and Oscillatory Flow of a Charged Liquid Around a Blade Electrode	p. 338
Granular Media and Fractures
Science in the Sandbox: Fluctuations	p. 351
Cluster Instability in Freely Evolving Granular Gases	p. 392
Granular Gases - The Early Stage	p. 408
Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Gravity Induced Granular Flow in Two-Dimensional Silos	p. 420
Dynamics of Fracture	p. 436
Avalanches and Damage Clusters in Fracture Processes	p. 452
List of participants	p. 461
Index	p. 467
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