Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

A comprehensive review of spatiotemporal pattern formation in systems driven away from
equilibrium is presented, with emphasis on comparisons between theory and quantitative …

and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic
picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the …

Granular materials are ubiquitous in the world around us. They have properties that are
different from those commonly associated with either solids, liquids, or gases. In this review …

This text provides an introduction to the exciting new developments in chaos and related
topics in nonlinear dynamics, including the detection and quantification of chaos in …

Typically, complex systems are natural or social systems which consist of a large number of
nonlinearly interacting elements. These systems are open, they interchange information or …

Self-organized criticality (SOC) maintains that complex behavior can develop spontaneously
in certain multi-body systems whose dynamics vary abruptly. This is a clear and concise …

Crackling noise arises when a system responds to changing external conditions through
discrete, impulsive events spanning a broad range of sizes. A wide variety of physical …

Granular materials display a variety of behaviors that are in many ways different from those
of other substances. They cannot be easily classified as either solids or liquids. This has …

This introductory text develops the fundamental physics of the behavior of granular
materials. It covers the basic properties of flow, friction, and fluidization of uniform granular …