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Active Matter Within and Around Us
From Self-Propelled Particles to Flocks and Living Forms
Buch von Len Pismen
Sprache: Englisch

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This book presents a comprehensive review of various aspects of the novel and rapidly developing field of active matter, which encompasses a wide variety of self-organized self-driven energy-consuming media or agents. Most naturally occurring examples are of biological origin, spanning all scales from intracellular structures to swimming and crawling cells and microorganisms, to living tissues, bacterial colonies and flocks of birds. But the field also encompasses artificial systems, from colloids to soft robots. Intrinsically out of equilibrium and free of constraints of time-reversal symmetry, such systems display a range of surprising and unusual behaviors.¿

In this book, the author emphasizes connections between fluid-mechanical, material, biological and technological aspects of active matter. He employs a minimum of mathematical tools, ensuring that the presentation is accessible to a wider scientific community. Richly illustrated, it gives the reader a clear picture of this fascinating field, its diverse phenomena and its open questions.
This book presents a comprehensive review of various aspects of the novel and rapidly developing field of active matter, which encompasses a wide variety of self-organized self-driven energy-consuming media or agents. Most naturally occurring examples are of biological origin, spanning all scales from intracellular structures to swimming and crawling cells and microorganisms, to living tissues, bacterial colonies and flocks of birds. But the field also encompasses artificial systems, from colloids to soft robots. Intrinsically out of equilibrium and free of constraints of time-reversal symmetry, such systems display a range of surprising and unusual behaviors.¿

In this book, the author emphasizes connections between fluid-mechanical, material, biological and technological aspects of active matter. He employs a minimum of mathematical tools, ensuring that the presentation is accessible to a wider scientific community. Richly illustrated, it gives the reader a clear picture of this fascinating field, its diverse phenomena and its open questions.
Über den Autor

Len Pismen is Emeritus Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He has worked in various areas of applied physics and published over 200 papers. His earlier books include Vortices in Nonlinear Fields (1999), Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics (2006), and general audience books The Swings of Science (2018) and Morphogenesis Deconstructed (2020). The latter, most recent, book also appears in Springer's Frontiers Collection.

Zusammenfassung

Provides broad and accessible description of a fascinating novel field within complexity science

Is richly illustrated with informative diagrams and breathtaking photographs

Written by a skilled author who excels at giving the "big picture"

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction.- Polar Flocks.- Active Nematics.- Active Colloids.- Motion of Microorganisms.- Eukaryotic Cells.- Active Gels.- Live Tissues.- Morphogenesis.- References.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Theoretische Physik
Genre: Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: The Frontiers Collection
Inhalt: xiii
227 S.
20 s/w Illustr.
216 farbige Illustr.
227 p. 236 illus.
216 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783030684204
ISBN-10: 3030684202
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Pismen, Len
Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
The Frontiers Collection
Maße: 241 x 160 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Len Pismen
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.02.2021
Gewicht: 0,53 kg
Artikel-ID: 119504216
Über den Autor

Len Pismen is Emeritus Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He has worked in various areas of applied physics and published over 200 papers. His earlier books include Vortices in Nonlinear Fields (1999), Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics (2006), and general audience books The Swings of Science (2018) and Morphogenesis Deconstructed (2020). The latter, most recent, book also appears in Springer's Frontiers Collection.

Zusammenfassung

Provides broad and accessible description of a fascinating novel field within complexity science

Is richly illustrated with informative diagrams and breathtaking photographs

Written by a skilled author who excels at giving the "big picture"

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction.- Polar Flocks.- Active Nematics.- Active Colloids.- Motion of Microorganisms.- Eukaryotic Cells.- Active Gels.- Live Tissues.- Morphogenesis.- References.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Theoretische Physik
Genre: Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: The Frontiers Collection
Inhalt: xiii
227 S.
20 s/w Illustr.
216 farbige Illustr.
227 p. 236 illus.
216 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783030684204
ISBN-10: 3030684202
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Pismen, Len
Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
The Frontiers Collection
Maße: 241 x 160 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Len Pismen
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.02.2021
Gewicht: 0,53 kg
Artikel-ID: 119504216
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