Systems Far from Equilibrium -

Systems Far from Equilibrium

Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, June 1980, Sitges, Barcelona/Spain

L. Garrido (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
XV, 407 Seiten
1980 | 1980
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-10251-9 (ISBN)
106,99 inkl. MwSt

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.9.1980
Reihe/Serie Lecture Notes in Physics
Zusatzinfo XV, 407 p. 35 illus.
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 244 mm
Gewicht 733 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Allgemeines / Lexika
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Theoretische Physik
Schlagworte Behaviour • Bifurcation • Entropy • Equilibrium • hamiltonian • Mechanics • phase transition • Solution • Statistical Mechanics • Statistische Mechanik • Systems • thermodynamics • Turbulence
ISBN-10 3-540-10251-5 / 3540102515
ISBN-13 978-3-540-10251-9 / 9783540102519
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