Physics of far from equilibrium systems and self organization

[ALYAZAN]

peaec upon u ..

i've read an article about this topic "physics of far from equilibrium systems and self organization" written by Gregoire Nicolis

but it was truly a tough article it was talking about chaotic system but the vocabulary used was very hard for me to understand and translate to arabic ..

it's syllables were
1- thermal convection, a prototype of self-organisation phenomena in physics
and was talking about benards cells in general
2- self-organisatio phenomena in chemistry
it illustrated the (Belousov-Zhabotinski) reaction in two cases:
a- well-stirred system (chemical clock and chaos)
b- BZ reaction in a nonuniform system (spatial patterns)
3- biological systems
4- forcec versus correlations

that's what I've read uptell now but i wasn't able to understand more than 20 to 50 % of the ideas deicussed ...

and is there an easy-language article talking about the same topic (physics of far from equilibrium systems and self organization) ?

i'll be very thankfull >> and by the way is it right place to ask or to talk about such an issue??

regards

 

[Andy Resnick]

Two possibilities:

Ilya Prigogine's 1969 book on nonequilibrium thermodynamics is a classic.

Wikipedia has a decent amount of material on the topics you mention, and it's written reasonably well.