Pattern Formation in Spatially Extended Systems

Tel Aviv - December, 2005

Michael Cross


Lectures

References

Demonstrations

These are some simple java demonstrations that illustrate aspects of my lectures. If you want to modify the demonstrations here are some documentation, a zip file of the executable and the various HTML files, and the java source files.

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

These demonstrations show the variety of planforms that are obtained from the Swift-Hohenberg equation and some generalizations, as well as the complicated transient dynamics.

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Notes

These notes explore the more technical aspects of the theoretical methods described in the lectures.

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3