InhaltsangabeI Introduction.- Propagation in Systems Far from Equilibrium: Introduction and Overview.- II Interfaces and Fronts.- Dendritic Crystal Growth: Recent Progress and Current Issues.- Velocity Selection for Needle Crystals in the 2-D One-Sided Model.- The Problem of Directional Solidification Revisited.- Cellular Instabilities in Directional Solidification.- Cellular and Dendritic Fronts in Directional Solidification: Experiments by the Light of Pattern Selection.- On the Analogy of Anomalous Viscous Fingers with Crystalline Dendrites.- Diffuse Interfaces.- III Chemical Waves.- Chemical Waves and Periodic Precipitation Processes.- Wave Propagation in Chemical Nonequilibrium Systems: New Experimental Results.- Spatio-Temporal Phase Patterns Near a Hopf Bifurcation in 2D Systems.- IV Envelope Equations and Localized Excitations.- The Dynamics of Patterns: A Survey.- Phase Turbulence and Mean Flow Effects in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection.- Defects in Waves.- Propagative Structures and Localization in the Convection of a Liquid Crystal.- Dynamics of Codimension-One Defects.- Localized Instabilites and Nucleation of Dislocations in Convective Rolls.- V Phase Dynamics and Pattern Selection.- Phase Dynamics - A Review and a Perspective.- Phase Diffusion in a Ramped Convection Channel.- Pattern Selection in the Bénard-Marangoni Instability.- Pattern Selection in Convective Instabilities with Axial Anisotropy.- Pattern Selection in Salt Fingers.- Model Systems for Long-Scale Convection.- The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation: A Progress Report.- VI Propagation in Confined Systems.- Two-frequency States at the Onset of Convection in Binary Fluid Mixtures.- A Galerkin Approximation for Convection in Binary Mixtures with Realistic Concentration Boundary Conditions.- Convection in Binary Mixtures.- Convection in Viscoelastic Fluids.- An Overview of the Flow Regimes in a Circular Couette System.- New Bifurcations in a Partially Filled, Horizontal, Rotating Cylinder.- New Patterns in the Flow Between Two Horizontal Coaxial Rotating Cylinders with Partially Filled Gap.- Strong Resonance in Forced Oscillatory Convection.- VII Open Flow Systems.- On the Absolute/Convective Nature of Primary and Secondary Instabilities.- The Bénard-Von Kármán Instability in Laminar Regimes.- Nonlinear Limit-Cycle Solutions - A Rational Method for Transition Prediction in Shear Flows?.- Questions About an Experiment on the Wake of a Sphere in a Stratified Fluid.- Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Three-Dimensional Boundary-Layer Transition.- On the Instability of Laminar Boundary Layers Along Concave Walls Towards Görtler Vortices.- Experimental Study of the Taylor-Görtler Instability.- Lattice Gas Hydrodynamics.- Index of Contributors.