
Complexity and Complex Chemo-Electric Systems
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Key Features
- Covers the theory and applications of complex chemo-electric systems through modeling, analysis, synthesis and optimization
- Provides a clear presentation of the applications of transport theory to electrolyte solutions, heterogeneous electrochemical systems, membranes, electro-kinetic phenomena and interface processes
- Includes numerous explanatory graphs and drawings that illustrate the properties and complexities in complex chemo-electric systems
- Written by an experienced expert in the field of advanced methods in thermodynamics and related aspects of macroscopic physics
Readership
Students at university and researchers and (chemical) engineers in industry working on applied electrochemistry and electrochemical energy sources. Researchers in industry involved in electrolysis, linked with chemical or other processes, e.g. chemical transformation or purification of outcoming streams
Table of Contents
1: Complexity in Abstract and Physical Systems
1.1 Problem Formulation
1.2 Some Historical Aspects
1.3 Spontaneously-Created Complexities
1.4 Complex Thermodynamic Systems
1.4.1 Introduction
1.4.2 Classical and Quasi-Classical Complex Systems
1.4.3 Extended Thermodynamics of Complex Systems
References of Ch 12: Examples of Complex States and Complex Transformations
2.1 Instabilities in liquids
2.2 Turbulence and Randomness in Fluid Mechanics
2.3 Complexities in Chemically Reacting Systems
2.3.1 Introduction
2.3.2 Ways of Treating Complex Reaction Systems
2.3.3 Application of Chemical Invariants in Reacting Systems
2.4 Optical instabilities
2.5 Growth and Aging phenomena
References of Ch 23: Heylighen’s view of Growing Complexities in Evolution
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Different Concepts of Complexity
3.3 Evolutionary Mechanisms
3.4 Growth of Structural Complexity
3.5 Self-reinforcing Structural Complexification
3.6 Selection for Simplicity
3.7 Direction of Evolution
3.8 Concluding Remarks
References of Ch 34: Selected Aspects of Complexity in Biological Systems
4.1 Fractal Structure of Erythrocytes
4.2 Bejan’s Pulsating Physiologies
4.3 Thermostatistics of Helix-Coil Transitions
4.4 Biochemical Cycles in Living Cells
4.5 Sequence-Structure Relations in Proteins
4.6 Complexity in Self-organization, Evolution and Life
References of Ch 45: Modeling and Optimal Control of Bio-electrochemical Systems
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Dynamic modelling
5.3 Control and Optimization of Bio-electrochemical systems
5.4. Perspectives
References of Ch 56: Hierarchical Scaling Complexities
6.1 Diversity of Trees
6.2 Effective-measure and forecasting complexity
6.3 Topological Exponents
6.4 Convergence and predictions of Badii and Politi model
6.5 Global Prediction
6.6 Detailed Function
6.7 Scaling Function
References of Ch 67: Modeling of Chemo-Electro-Mechanical Coupling I
7.1 Aims and Scope
7,2 Continuous Chemo-Electro-Mechanics
7,3 Discrete Chemo-Electro-Mechanics
7.4 Model of Chemo-Electro-Mechanics
References of Ch 78: Modeling of Chemo-Electro-Mechanical Coupling II
8.1 Example of Electro-Mechanical Coupling for a Single Cell
8.2 Example of Coupling in a Square Panel
8.3 Chemo-Electro-Mechanical Coupling in Human Heart
8.4 Final Remarks
References of Ch 8
Product details
- No. of pages: 320
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2021
- Published: February 9, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128236369
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128234600
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Stanislaw Sieniutycz
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