Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 234 mm
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 234 mm
ISBN: 978-0-444-51515-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology
· Systematic exposition of fluctuating hydrodynamics and its applications
· First book on nonequilibrium fluctuations in fluids
· Fluctuating Boussinesq equations and nonequilibrium fluids
· Fluid layers and onset of convection
· Rayleigh scattering and Brillouin scattering in fluids
· Shadowgraph technique for measuring fluctuations
· Fluctuations near hydrodynamic instabilities
Zielgruppe
Physics, chemical physics, chemical engineering and Mechanical Engineering researchers
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Introduction
2. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
3. Fluctuations in Fluids in Thermodynamic Equilibrium
4. Thermal Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in One-Component Fluids
5. Thermal Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Fluid Mixtures
6. Finite-Size Effects in Hydrodynamic Fluctuations
7. Thermal Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in One-Component-Fluid Layers
8. Thermal Fluctuations Close to the Rayleigh-Bénard Instability
9. Thermal Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Binary-Fluid Layers
10. Experiments on Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in the Rayleigh-Bénard Problem
11. Other Nonequilibrium Fluctuations
12. Epilogue
Bibliography
List of Symbols and Corresponding SI Units
List of Abbreviations
Subject Index