| Contents | |
| Chapter 1 | Mechanisms of the onset of time-dependence in thermal convection |
| Chapter 2 | Universal instabilities of rolls, squares and hexagons |
| Chapter 3 | Unsteady free and mixed convection in external flows |
| Chapter 4 | Natural convection in a saturated porous cross section due to an unstably-heated side wall |
| Chapter 5 | Layer formation in double diffusive convection |
| Chapter 6 | Time-dependent Benard-Marangoni instablility and waves |