Edgar KNOBLOCH Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Mercredi 10 juin 2009 à 10h30
Amphithéâtre Nougaro
INSTITUT DE MECANIQUE DES FLUIDES
allée du Professeur Camille Soula, Toulouse
Spatially localized structures occur widely across the physical sciences. Classic examples include localized buckling of slender structures, localized oscillations in vertically vibrated granular media (oscillons) and localized convection in fluid dynamics (convectons). In this talk I will describe the basic mathematics -- and the physics -- behind the formation of these often unexpected structures, with a view to providing a unified picture of their origin and properties.
