Continuum Models and Discrete Systems [Paperback]

Proceedings of the NATO ARW, Shoresh, Israel, from 30 June to 4 July 2003

Contents

Dedication v

Preface xiii

In Memoriam of Ekkehart Kroener xv

In Memoriam of Konstantin Zdravkov Markov xvii

Acknowledgment xx

Part 1 Thermodynamics, transport theory, and statistical mechan ics

GL Noise in non-Ohmic regimes of disordered systems (abstract) 3

Kamal K. Bardhan and Chandidas Mukherjee

RC Coupled tent and logistic maps: Lyapunov exponents, stability and bifur

cations of invariant set belonging to the map diagonal 5

Vladimir A. Dobrynskiy

RC Self-assembied 2D dipole clusters (abstract) 13

M. Golosovsky Y Saado, Y Neve-Oz and D. Davidov

RC Transforming to chaos by forma! forms 15

Avadis Hacinliyan Nazim Ziya Perdahci, Gokhan Sahin, H. Ahmet Yildirim

RC Representative volume element: A statistical point of view (not presented) 21 Dominique Jeulin Toufik Kanit, and Samuel Forest

RC Diffusion mediated transport and the Brownian motor 29

David Kinderlehrer

RC A phase field system with memory 37

Amy Novick-Cohen

RC Pattern formation, reconstruction, and roughening on a catalytic surface

(abstract) 43

M. Monine and L. M. Pismen

viii CONTINUUM MODELS AND DJSCRETE SYSTEMS

Part II Continuum mechanics of complex fluids and deformable solids with microstructure

RC The special electrical properties and the corresponding applications of car

bon black-polymer composites 47

1. Balberg

RC Continuum field model of defect-induced heterogeneities in a strained thin