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Record Nr.

UNINA9910257406903321

Titolo

Recent Developments in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the Meeting Held at Bellaterra School of Thermodynamics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain, September 26–30, 1983 / / edited by J. Casas-Vazquez, D. Jou, G. Lebon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1984

ISBN

3-540-38810-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 1984.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 489 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 199

Disciplina

536.7

Soggetti

Thermodynamics

Statistical physics

Dynamical systems

Condensed matter

Complex Systems

Condensed Matter Physics

Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Early applications of extended irreversible thermodynamics -- Extended thermodynamics — past, present, future -- An approach to extended irreversible thermodynamics I : Macroscopic aspects -- An approach to extended irreversible thermodynamics II. Fluctuation theory -- An approach to extended irreversible thermodynamics III. Nonequilibrium equations of state and comparison with generalized hydrodynamics -- Extended irreversible thermodynamics and chemical kinetics -- Non-stationary relativistic thermodynamics and some cosmological problems -- Generalized Gibbs equations in irreversible thermodynamics -- Nonequilibrium thermodynamics: A hidden variable approach -- Fluctuations around equilibrium -- Theories of fluctuations in nonequilibrium systems -- Microscopic approaches to nonlinear hydrodynamics -- Unified theory of internal and external



fluctuations -- Dynamics of nonequilibrium transitions -- Noise in electrical systems -- Fundamental remarks on evaluating dissipation inequalities -- On classical nonequilibrium thermodynamics and its extensions -- On extended Onsagerian thermodynamics -- Relativistic generalized hydrodynamics -- Variational principles in extended irreversible thermodynamics. Application to heat and mass transfer -- Extended thermodynamics of dense gases -- Steady states resulting from coupled chemical oscillators -- Fluctuations in non-linear viscoelastic systems -- Viscoelastic models for brownian motion in fluids with spin -- Correlation functions of processes driven by external colored noise -- A non-renormalized and a renormalized description of the Fokker-Planck dynamics -- The equation which governs irreversibility in continuum mechanics -- Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of dilute relativistic plasmas.