Kinetics of Phase Transitions

ISBN-13: 9780367385859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 346 str.

Sanjay Puri; Vinod Wadhawan

Opis

Providing a comprehensive introduction with the necessary background material to make it accessible for a wide scientific audience, this text is a timely discussion of current developments in domain-growth kinetics. The book combines pedagogical chapters from various leading experts in this area and focuses on incorporating experimentally relevant effects such as disorder, strain fields, and wetting surfaces into studies of phase ordering dynamics. In addition, it highlights topics garnering recent interest, such as the growth of nanostructures on surfaces. The book also provides a comprehensive overview of numerical techniques that have proven useful in studying these complex nonlinear problems.

Spis treści

Introduction to Basic Concepts. Kinetics of Phase Transitions in Solids. Kinetics of Phase Transitions in Fluids. Incorporation of Experimentally Relevant Effects. Novel Directions in the Kinetics of Phase Transitions.

O autorze

Sanjay Puri, Vinod Wadhawan