Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics of Nonlinear Nonequilibrium Systems

by Ebeling, W.; Muschik, W.

• ISBN13: 9789810211349
• ISBN10: 9810211341
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-04-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface
Random Stresses in Potts Models of Disordered Plastic Crystals	p. 1
Cooperative Stochastic Processes in "Physiological" Neuron Models	p. 10
Sensitivity to Initial Conditions in Complex Systems	p. 23
Methods of Conservative Chaos Theory in Stochastic Physics	p. 47
Nonlinear Dynamics in Low-Dimensional Lattices: A Chemical Reaction Model	p. 54
Far-From-Equilibrium Phonon Distributions in Piezoelectric Semiconductors	p. 67
Resonant Pair Nucleation in an Overdamped Sine-Gordon Chain	p. 81
Thermally Driven Turbulence	p. 87
Finite-time Optimization of Chemical Reactions and Connections to Thermodynamic Speed	p. 97
Optimizing Irreversible Thermodynamic Processes	p. 109
A Variation Principle for Differential Transport Coefficients	p. 121
The Steps of Modeling in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics	p. 132
Higher-order Fluxes and Effective Relaxation Times in Extended Thermodynamics	p. 137
Some Results Relevant to Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics	p. 146
Projection Operators in Statistical Formulation of Nonlinear and Extended Thermodynamics	p. 164
Nonlinear and Statistical Aspects of Diffusion in a Solid within an Extended-like Thermodynamical Model	p. 173
Thermodynamics of Light and Sound	p. 181
Spinodal Decomposition in Binary Fluid Mixture	p. 195
Entropy and Environment	p. 207
About the Necessity and the Possibility of the Unified Description of Kinetic and Hydrodynamic Processes	p. 215
Entropy, Predictability and Historicity of Non-linear Processes	p. 217
Quantum-Thermodynamics: Bridging Quantum Mechanics and Thermodynamics	p. 229
Symmetry and Coherent Approximations in Non-equilibrium Systems	p. 242
Stochastic Electrodynamics: A Road to Quantum Gravity	p. 253
List of Participants	p. 255
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