Critical behavior of non-ideal systems. / / Dmitry Yu. Ivanov

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830907703321
• Autore: Ivanov Dmitry Yu
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Weinheim, [Germany] : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, , 2008; ©2008
• ISBN: 1-282-02143-5; 9786612021435; 3-527-62398-1; 3-527-62399-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 530.474; 541
• Soggetti: Critical phenomena (Physics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Critical Behavior of Non-Ideal Systems; Foreword to the Russian Edition; Foreword to the English Edition; Contents; Editor's Preface; Introduction; Part I The Statics of Critical Phenomena; 1 Statics of Critical Phenomena in the Nearest Vicinity of the Critical Point: Experimental Manifestation; 1.1 Short History of Critical Phenomena Research; 1.2 Peculiarities of the Experiment in the Nearest Vicinity of the Critical Point; 1.2.1 ""Experimental"" Critical Indices; 1.2.2 Determination of Critical Parameters; 1.2.3 Purity of Matter; 1.2.4 Determination of Critical Density; 1.2.5 Determination of Critical Temperature and Pressure1.3 Experiments Near the Critical Point in the Presence of the Gravitational Field; 1.3.1 The Gravitational Effect; 1.3.2 The Coexistence Curve; 1.3.3 Singularity of the Diameter of the Coexistence Curve; 1.3.4 The Critical Isotherm; 1.3.5 Isothermal Compressibility Along the Critical Isochore; 1.3.6 (p - T)-Dependence Along the Critical Isochore; 2 Critical Indices and Amplitudes; 2.1 Phenomenological Model of the Critical Behavior of Nonideal Systems; 2.2 Critical Indices: External Field Effects; 2.2.1 Critical Index β; 2.2.1.1 The Gravitational Effect2.2.1.2 The Influence of Surface Forces; ; 2.2.1.3 The Influence of Fields: Comparison with Magnetic Materials; 2.2.1.4 Comparison with Metals; 2.2.2 Critical Index δ; 2.2.2.1 The Influence of Gravitation; 2.2.2.2 The Influence of Coulomb Forces; 2.2.3 Critical Index γ; 2.2.3.1 The Influence of Gravitation; 2.2.4 Critical Index α; 2.2.4.1 The Influence of Gravitation; 2.2.5 Critical Index of the Correlation Radius υ; 2.2.6 Micellar Systems; 2.2.7 Influence of Boundaries: Finite-Size Effects; 2.2.8 Results and Consequences; 2.2.9 Some Unresolved Problems; 2.3 Critical Indices and Amplitudes2.3.1 Universal Relations Between Critical Indices; 2.3.2 Universal Relations Between Critical Amplitudes; 2.3.3 Correlation Between Critical Index and Critical Amplitude Values; 3 Thermodynamics of the Metastable State; 3.1 The ""Pseudospinodal"" Hypothesis; 3.1.1 The History of the Occurrence of the ""Pseudospinodal Hypthesis""; 3.1.2 The Universal ""Pseudospinodal""; 3.2 The van der Waals Spinodal; 3.2.1 First-Order Stability Conditions; 3.2.2 Higher Order Stability Conditions; 3.2.3 Approaching the Instability Points; 3.2.4 The Instability Area; 3.3 Thermodynamic Analysis of the ""Pseudospinodal"" Hypothesis3.3.1 Physics and Geometry; 3.3.2 Mathematical Foundation; 3.3.3 Thermodynamic Consequences; 3.4 Experimental Test of the ""Pseudospinodal"" Hypothesis; Part II The Dynamics of Critical Phenomena; 4 Foundations of Critical Dynamics; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Critical Fluctuations: Light Scattering Intensity; 4.3 Kinetics of Critical Fluctuations: Light Scattering Spectrum; 4.4 Dynamic Critical Indices and Universal Amplitude; 4.5 Scattering of Higher Orders; 5 Critical Opalescence: Modeling; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Techniques and Experimental Methods
• Sommario/riassunto: This comprehensive systematic overview covers the static and dynamic critical phenomena of real, non-ideal fluids in the nearest vicinity of the critical point, offers new approaches and presents research results on the highest level. Including both theoretical and experimental researches, it also deals with the critical opalescence as phenomenon with continuously growing scattering multiplicity upon approaching the critical point.