title: Complex spatiotemporal convection patterns.
abstract: This paper reviews recent efforts to describe complex patterns in isotropic fluids (Rayleigh-Benard convection) as well as in anisotropic liquid crystals (electro-hydrodynamic convection) when driven away from equilibrium. A numerical scheme for solving the full hydrodynamic equations is presented that allows surprisingly well for a detailed comparison with experiments. The approach can also be useful for a systematic construction of models (order parameter equations). (c) 1996 American Institute of Physics.
authors.affiliation: Physikalisches Institut der Universitat Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany.
authors.forename: W.
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pesch