Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Chemical Systems -

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Sommaire:
I General Introduction.- to the Meeting Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Chemical Systems (Introduction au Colloque).- Spatial and Temporal Patterns Formed by Systems Far from Equilibrium (plenary lecture).- II Oscillating Reactions and Modelling Problems.- New Chemical Oscillators (plenary lecture).- The Mechanism of the Oscillating Air Oxidation of Benzaldehyde.- Analysis of Elementary Steps in Oscillating Chemical Reactions.- Bistability in the Reduction of Permanganate by Hydrogen Peroxide in a Stirred Tank Flow Reactor.- Measurements and Modelling of Unstable Steady State, Separatrix, and Critical Point Behavior.- Isothermal Autocatalysis in Open Systems (CSTR): Simple Models and Complex Behaviour.- Composition Variables Needed to Model Complex Chemical Systems.- Modelling of Chemical Dynamics (extended abstract of a plenary lecture). Towards a Methodological Approach.- Bistability and Oscillations in a Flow Reactor: The Systems H2O2-KI with and Without Iodate and (NH4)2 S2O8-KI with and Without Oxalic Acid.- III Spatial Structures and Chemical Waves.- Propagator-Controller Systems and Chemical Patterns (plenary lecture).- The Speed of Propagation of Oxidizing and Reducing Wave Fronts in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction.- Macroscopic Self Organization at Geological and Other First Order Phase Transitions.- Temporal and Spatial Structures in Chemical Systems Far from Equilibrium (extended abstract of a plenary lecture).- Experimental Study of Target Patterns Exhibited by the B.Z. Reaction.- Kinematic Analysis of Wave Pattern Formation in Excitable Media.- Pattern Formation in Chemical Systems: The Effect of Convection.- Spatial Structures Formed by Chemical Reactions at Liquid Interfaces: Phenomenology, Model Simulations, and Pattern Analysis.- IV ChemicalChaos.- Chemical Chaos (plenary lecture).- Quasiperiodicity in Chemical Dynamics.- Nonlinear Interactions Between Instabilities Leading to Chaos in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction.- V Noise Effects.- Noise Induced Transitions (plenary lecture).- External Noise in Finite Systems.- Hopf Bifurcation and Ripple Induced by External Multiplicative Noise.- Inhomogeneities Induced by Imperfect Stirring in a C.S.T.R. Effect on Bistability.- Turbulent Mixing and Nonequilibrium Chemical Instabilities: The Effect of Reactant Streams in a CSTR.- VI Stochastic Analysis.- Stochastic Aspects of Nonequilibrium Transitions in Chemical Systems (plenary lecture).- Stochastic Theory of a Bistable Chemical Reaction in Non-Homogeneous Liquids.- Stochastic Description of Various Types of Bifurcations in Chemical Systems.- Long Range Correlations in a Non Equilibrium System.- VII Posters.- Analysis of Chemical Network Dynamics Using Computer Programmed Theory.- Heterogeneous Fluctuations in Chemical Oscillators.- Basins of Attraction to Oscillatory Modes in a Forced Glycolytic Oscillator.- Quasiperiodic, Entrained and Chaotic Responses of Yeast Extracts Under Periodic Substrate Input Flux: Model and Experiments.- Critical Thresholds in Chemical Composition for Convective Pattern Formation in Protein Solutions and Cytoplasmic Media.- Image Analysis in the Study of Dissipative Spatial Patterns.- Dissipative Structures in a Two Cells System.- Photochemical Reactions and Hydrodynamic Instabilities.- Toroids, Spirals and Other Chemical Waves.- A Model for the Oscillatory Precipitations of Minerals in Chemically Modified Rocks: The Autocatalytic Role of Surfaces.- Study of the Electrochemical Properties of Colloids by Means of Photo-Ionic Effect.- Diffusion-Reactions in Solid-Liquid Systems Mathematical and Geological Features.- Stochastic Analysis of a Complex Bifurcation.- Relaxation Processes in Spatially Distributed Bistable Chemical Systems: Deterministic and Stochastic Analysis.- A Lagrangian Formulat...