NUCLEATION AND GROWTH OF TA-OXIDE IN A NONSTATIONARY THERMAL FIELD .5. SUMMARY - ADAPTIVE SELF-ORGANIZATION VS DESTRUCTION

Summarising the results of studies of Ta-oxidation in the non-stationa ry thermal field (variable parameter is the heating rate beta), it was shown that various types of the self-organized structures in 2D and 3 D develop in the highly non-equilibrium and non-linear process. The st ructure selection principle was found to be the principle of the faste st growth. It was shown that by increasing the beta-scale, the self-or ganized structures (in 2D and 3D) become less and less complex, while their complexity number satisfies the theorem of 'ordered complexity' and their complexity level, the theorem of 'degraded complexity' of Ur ias. It was shown that the system adaptively reacts on the change of b eta-scale on both individual and collective (landscape) levels; once t he system exhausts the possibility for the adaptive behaviour, it turn s into destruction.