In the subsurface, fluids play a critical role by transporting dissolved minerals, colloids, and
contaminants (sometimes over long distances); by mediating dissolution and precipitation …

Introduced by the late Per Bak and his colleagues, self-organized criticality (SOC) has been
one of the most stimulating concepts to come out of statistical mechanics and condensed …

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and
predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a …

The Gutenberg‐Richter power law distribution for energy released at earthquakes can be
understood as a consequence of the earth crust being in a self‐organized critical state. A …

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 …

Magnetic flux can penetrate a type-II superconductor in the form of Abrikosov vortices (also
called flux lines, flux tubes, or fluxons) each carrying a quantum of magnetic flux phi 0= h/2e …

We study a general Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld–type automaton model of self-organized criticality
in which the toppling conditions depend on local height, but not on its gradient. We …

Recent studies have identified broadband phenomena in the electric potentials produced by
the brain. We report the finding of power-law scaling in these signals using subdural …

Homeostatic mechanisms stabilize neuronal activity in vivo, but whether this process gives
rise to balanced network dynamics is unknown. Here, we continuously monitored the …

Introduction; 1. Turbulence and dynamical systems; 2. Phenomenology of turbulence; 3.
Reduced models for hydrodynamic turbulence; 4. Turbulence and coupled map lattices; 5 …