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This lecture is based in large part on a general article with the same title published in Science magazine [1]; what follows is a summary excerpted from that article. More detailed and technical presentations of this material can be found in recent reviews [2,3,4].
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Langer, J.S. (1990). Dendrites, Viscous Fingers, and the Theory of Pattern Formation. In: Onuki, A., Kawasaki, K. (eds) Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76008-2_35
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