Dear Colleagues,

The core of evolving technologies is based on the continuous understanding and exploring of all fundamental mechanisms involved. For many of the top applications in present-day, such as thin-film technology, drug delivery, bio-control technology, robotics, geophysics, atmospheric control, to name a few, the drive towards controlling and tailoring fundamental aspects is given by the complexity of the transient phenomena involved. Attempting to uncover core phenomena for various scientific domains is arduous and rather difficult as it is, more often than not, based on complex mathematical and physical models with strong influence from non-linear dynamics and chaotic behavior.

The problem of interaction scale becomes essential in understanding these phenomena as their non-linear nature impacts technological applications, as well as their implementation and control. The concept of the interaction scale, or scale transitions, becomes as important as the choice of which investigation tool(s) to use for experimental research, essentially defining the boundaries of the complex mathematical models. Therefore, a modern perspective is needed—a view that considers, beside the steady and controllable state, the transient dynamics, and even chaos, as pilons on which an ampler view over the phenomenon can be built.

This Special Issue aims to attract novel and exciting experimental and theoretical research concerning essential transient phenomena analysis at different interaction scales. 

Prof. Dr. Maricel Agop
Dr. Dan Gheorghe Dimitriu
Dr. Stefan Andrei Irimiciuc
Guest Editors

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• transient phenomena
• complex systems
• non-linear mathematical and physical models
• low-temperature plasmas
• laser ablation