"Complexity in Biological and Physical Systems: Bifurcations, Solitons and Fractals" ed. by Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz

This book collects several works, giving an overview of some models and theories, which are useful for the study and analysis of complex biological and physical systems. It can provide a good guidance for physicists with interest in biology, applied research scientists and postgraduate students.

Modeling and simulating biological and physical systems are nowadays active branches of science. The diversity and complexity of behaviors and patterns present in the natural world have their reciprocity in life systems. Bifurcations, solitons and fractals are some of these ubiquitous structures that can be indistinctively identified in many models with the most diverse applications, from microtubules with an essential role in the maintenance and the shaping of cells, to the nano/microscale structure in disordered systems determined with small-angle scattering techniques.


Contents
1 Mechanical Models of Microtubules
2 The Dynamics Analysis of Two Delayed Epidemic Spreading Models with Latent Period on Heterogeneous Network
3 Stability and Hopf Bifurcation Analysis of a Simple Nutrient-Prey-Predator Model with Intratrophic Predation in Chemostat
4 Sensitivity Analysis: A Useful Tool for Bifurcation Analysis
5 Biological Hypercomputation and Degrees of Freedom
6 Self-Organization, Coherence and Turbulence in Laser Optics
7 Interaction of Solitons with the Electromagnetic Field in Classical Nonlinear Field Models
8 A Perturbation Theory for Nonintegrable Equations with Small Dispersion
9 Weakly Nonlinear Stability Analysis of a Nanofluid in a Horizontal Porous Layer Using a Multidomain Spectral Collocation Method
10 Small-Angle Scattering from Mass and Surface Fractals