Pattern Formation in Nonequilibrium Systems

Taken from: Physics 161b (2000)

Java Demonstrations

• Nonlinear saturation
  1. Swift-Hohenberg - stripes
  2. Swift-Hohenberg - hexagons
  3. Swift-Hohenberg - stripes (larger systen size and larger random initial value)
  4. Swift-Hohenberg - hexagons
  5. The Brusselator
  6. A Quasicrytal Pattern
  7. Superlattices
• Eckhaus and zigzag instabilities
  1. Eckhaus
  2. Eckhaus - dependence on wave vector
  3. Zigzag
• Signal Propagation in Excitable Media
  1. Pulse propagation (Barkley model)
  2. Spiral (Barkley model)
  3. Spatially disordered state (Barkley model)
  4. Chaotic state (Bar model)
  5. Complex Gizburg Landau equation