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Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No. 130
Dynamic Organization of Fluctuations
— Molecular Machines, Powder Flows and Fluid Turbulence —
Proceedings of the 12th Nishinomiya Yukawa Memorial Symposium
(November 13 and 14, 1997, Nishinomiya, Japan)
Edited by Michio Yamada
Molecular machines realize a mesoscopic energy conversion
in thermally fluctuating environment. In powder flows
macroscopic dynamics with dissipative mechanisms generates
coherent collective motions. Fluid turbulence is a typical
system governed by a well-known equation of motion, in which
statistical properties of fluctuating velocity field are
quite stable. Nonlinear generation of order out of
fluctuations is essential in each of these systems'
behavior. The 12th Nishinomiya Yukawa Memorial Symposium
(Nov.13-14, 1997, Nishinomiya, Japan) was organized to
discuss the intrinsic mechanisms of order generation and
its theoretical aspects. This supplement includes all the
invited lectures given in this symposium. The organization
of fluctuations in molecular machines, powder flows and
fluid turbulence is discussed encompassing the current
status of research and newest findings from the basis of
thermodynamics to the properties of atmospheric turbulence.
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