Stochastic Processes in Polymeric Fluids
Subtitle: Tools and Examples for Developing Simulation Algorithms
By: by Hans Christian Öttinger
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Published: 1996
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9783642582905
Subjects: Condensed Matter Physics; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Polymers; Surfaces (Physics); Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Thermodynamics; Engineering; Chemical engineering; Chemistry; Computational intelligence; Polymer Sciences
Description: This book consists of two strongly interweaved parts: the mathematical theory of stochastic processes and its applications to molecular theories of polymeric fluids. The comprehensive mathematical background provided in the first part should be equally useful in many other branches of engineering and the natural sciences. As a benefit from the second part one gains a more direct understanding of polymer dynamics, one can more easily identify exactly solvable models, and one can develop efficient computer simulation algorithms in a straightforward manner. In view of the many examples and exercises, on the one hand, and the numerous applications to problems from the front line of science, on the other hand, this volume may be used equally well as a basic textbook or as an up-to-date reference book.
Table of contents: title: 1 Stochastic Processes, Polymer Dynamics, and Fluid Mechanics; title: 1.1 Approach to Kinetic Theory Models; title: 1.2 Flow Calculation and Material Functions; title: References; title: I Stochastic Processes; title: 2 Basic Concepts from Stochastics; title: 3 Stochastic Calculus; title: II Polymer Dynamics; title: 4 Bead-Spring Models for Dilute Solutions; title: 5 Models with Constraints; title: 6 Reptation Models for Concentrated Solutions and Melts; title: Landmark Papers and Books; title: Solutions to Exercises; title: References; title: Author Index.