Buch, Englisch, 407 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 734 g
Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics
Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, June 1980, Sitges, Barcelona/Spain
Buch, Englisch, 407 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 734 g
Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics
ISBN: 978-3-540-10251-9
Verlag: Springer
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Prologue: The intrinsic Fokker-Planck equation.- Kinetics of metastable states.- Instability, fluctuations and critical slowing down.- Spinodal decomposition.- Bifurcations and symmetry — Breaking in Far from equilibrium systems.- Some topics in nonequilibrium critical phenomena.- Onset of convection and turbulence in a cylindrical container.- The onset of turbulence: Convection, surface waves, and oscillators.- Statistical dynamics of turbulence.- Problems in nonlinear transport theory.- Non-linear transport theory.- On non-linear fluctuations from statistical mechanics.- Kinetic theory of dense gases not in equilibrium.- Information theory and ecological diversity.- Time evolution in isolated non-equilibrium systems: The Pauli master equation revisited.- Non-linear Fokker Planck equations: Characteristics of eigenfunctions.- Entropy, action and the onsager-machlup function.- “Non-classical” threshold behaviour at far from equilibrium instabilities.- Simulation study of the critical behaviour of a chemical model system.- Order and turbulence in one-dimension.- Extended irreversible thermodynamics: Evolution and fluctuations of dissipative fluxes.- Thermodynamic modeling of systems far from equilibrium.- Aspects of nucleation in tricritical systems.- Adiabatic Hamiltonian deformation, linear response theory, and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics.- Different routes to turbulence in high Prandtl number convection and in rectangular cells: Influence of the aspect ratio and of the structure.- Experiments on phase transitions due to the external fluctuation.- Hopping models for ultrasonic absorption in dilute polymer solutions.- Stochastic dynamic approach to the decay of an unstable state.
