DISSIPATION AND ORGANIZATION. “Snowflakes, sand dunes and turbulent vortices all have in common that they are strikingly patterned structures that emerge in many-particle systems driven by some dissipative process…Condensation, wind and viscous drag are the relevant processes in these particular cases.”
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