"This book contains a systematic investigation of the convection in systems with interfaces. For the first time, it classifies all of the known types of convective instabilities in such systems, and discusses the peculiarities of multilayer systems. The book provides an overview of the wide variety of steady and oscillatory patterns, waves, and other dynamic phenomena characteristic for multilayer fluid systems. Various physical effects, ..."
"... the motion of the gas is neglected, whereas the heat/mass transfer in the gas is
described in a phenomenological way by ... A more accurate approach (the two-
layer model) takes into account the physical processes in fluids on both sides of
the ... Interfacial convection is a striking phenomenon that takes place any time
the interfacial tension is not uniform along ... where it provides a reliable transport
mechanism (Sammarco a ..."
"... pleasant and made them want to return to this wonderful place again. Also, our
special thanks go to Dr. Denis Melnikov and Ms Jessica Conway for their
invaluable help in translation between French, English and Russian; this was a
bridge that helped connect together people from so many different countries. One
of the editors and ... the NATO ASI was partially supported by the US National
Science Foundation. Lorenz Kramer lecturi ..."