Pattern Formation at Interfaces with Applications to Biomedical, Materials and Physico-Chemical Processes
Suggested readings
A. Pimpinelli and J. Villain, Physics of Crystal Growth, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
S.H. Davis, Theory of Solidification, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
C. Godreche (ed.), Solids far from Equilibrium, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
C. Godreche and P. Manneville (ed.), Hydrodynamics and nonlinear instabilities, 1998.
L.E. Johns and R. Narayanan, Interfacial Instability, Springer Verlag 2002 (Read only chapters 2, 3, 7 and 9 : Chapter 2 is on boundary conditions and the first 12 pages are enough for the students of the course)
Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena: Drops, Bubbles, Pearls, Waves by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Francoise Brochard-Wyart, David Quere, Springer, 2003, ISBN 0387005927.
Textbooks on fluid dynamics, e.g. Kundu, Cohen: Fluid mechanics, Academic Press, 2004, ISBN 0121782530.
Books on pattern formation e.g. H. Haken: Synergetics, an Introduction. Nonequilibrium Phase-Transitions and Self-Organization in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, 3rd enlarged edition, Springer 1983.