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

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the systems coupled to two reservoirs of energy
in such a way that there is a steady energy flow through the system. An example is a resistor …

Now in a greatly expanded second edition, this book relates fractals and chaos to a variety
of geological and geophysical applications and introduces the fundamental concepts of …

Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as
uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences …

We introduce a new nonconservative self-organized critical model. This model is equivalent
to a quasistatic two-dimensional version of the Burridge-Knopoff spring-block model of …

Self-organized criticality is one of the key concepts to describe the emergence of complexity
in natural systems. The concept asserts that a system self-organizes into a critical state …

The concept of self-organized criticality was introduced to explain the behaviour of the
sandpile model. In this model, particles are randomly dropped onto a square grid of boxes …

В книге намечены контуры исследовательской программы, связанной с построением
математической теории безопасности и риска, стратегии и практики управления …

THE idea of self-organized criticality1 (SOC) is commonly illustrated conceptually with
avalanches in a pile of sand grains. The grains are dropped onto a pile one by one, and the …

This article gives a historical overview of structural and mechanical systems with friction.
Friction forces between sliding surfaces arise due to complex mechanisms and lead to …