Far from Equilibrium Phase Transitions
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Xth Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, June 6-10, 1988
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Published: December 31, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9783540506430
Subjects: Statistical physics
Description: This collection of lectures covers a wide range of present day research in thermodynamics and the theory of phase transitions far from equilibrium. The contributions are written in a pedagogical style and present an extensive bibliography to help graduates organize their further studies in this area. The reader will find lectures on principles of pattern formation in physics, chemistry and biology, phase instabilities and phase transitions, spatial and temporal structures in optical systems, transition to chaos, critical phenomena and fluctuations in reaction-diffusion systems, and much more.