UID:
almahu_9947923359802882
Format:
XV, 407 p. 35 illus.
,
online resource.
ISBN:
9783540383444
Series Statement:
Lecture Notes in Physics, 132
Note:
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.
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783540102519
Language:
English
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0025609
