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By
Jose Ortiz de Zarate, Doctor en Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense, 1991, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Jan Sengers, Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, 1962
Doctor Honoris Causa, Technical University Delft, 1992, University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.
Description
This book deals with density, temperature, velocity and concentration fluctuations in fluids and fluid mixtures. The book first reviews
thermal fluctuations in equilibrium fluids on the basis of fluctuating hydrodynamics. It then shows how the method of fluctuating hydrodynamics
can be extended to deal with hydrodynamic fluctuations when the system is in a stationary nonequilibrium state. In contrast to equilibrium
fluids where the fluctuations are generally short ranged unless the system is close to a critical point, fluctuations in nonequilibrium
fluids are always long-ranged encompassing the entire system. The book provides the first comprehensive treatment of fluctuations in
fluids and fluid mixtures brought out of equilibrium by the imposition of a temperature and concentration gradient but that are still
in a macroscopically quiescent state. By incorporating appropriate boundary conditions in the case of fluid layers, it is shown how fluctuating
hydrodynamics affects the fluctuations close to the onset of convection. Experimental techniques of light scattering and shadowgraphy
for measuring nonequilibrium fluctuations are elucidated and the experimental results thus far reported in the literature are reviewed.
Audience
Physics, chemical physics, chemical engineering and Mechanical Engineering researchers
Contents
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
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Paperback, 320 pages, publication date: APR-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51515-5
ISBN-10: 0-444-51515-1
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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GBP 47.99
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