Systems Far from Equilibrium [[electronic resource] ] : Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, June 1980, Sitges, Barcelona/Spain / / edited by L. Garrido

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1980
• Edizione: 1st ed. 1980.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XV, 407 p. 35 illus.)
• Disciplina: 530.1
• Soggetto topico: Mathematical physics; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
• Persona (resp. second.): GarridoL
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Systems far from equilibrium
• ISBN: 3-540-38344-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996466815903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Lecture Notes in Physics, . 0075-8450 ; ; 132