Morphology of Condensed Matter: Physics and Geometry of Spatially Complex Systems

ISBN-13: 9783540442035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 442 str.

Cornelia T. Neff; K. Mecke; D. Stoyan

Opis

The morphology of spatially stuctured materials is a rapidly growing field of research at the interface of statistical physics, applied mathematics and materials science. A wide spectrum of applications encompasses the flow through porous and composite materials as well as microemulsions and foams. Written as a set of lectures and tutorial reviews leading up to the forefront of research, this book should be both a compendium for the experienced researcher as well as a high level introductory text for postgraduate students and nonspecialist researchers working in related areas.

Recenzje

"In short, this book presents a state of art description of a rapidly growing area of research. Undoubtedly it will be a good reference for the specialists working in soft condensed matter science." (The Physicist, 40/5, 2003)

Spis treści

Complex Structured Condensed Matter.- Spatial Statistics and Micromechanics of Materials.- Characterising the Morphology of Disordered Materials.- Topological Characterization of Porous Media.- Nanotomography: Real-Space Volume Imaging with Scanning Probe Microscopy.- Bicontinuous Surfaces in Self-assembling Amphiphilic Systems.- Morphology of Langmuir Monolayer Phases.- Spatial Order in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations of Systems of Ellipsoids.- Two-Dimensional Fluid Foams at Equilibrium.- Spatial Statistics and Morphology.- Morphological Texture Analysis: An Introduction.- Vector- and Tensor-Valued Descriptors for Spatial Patterns.- Computational Topology for Point Data: Betti Numbers of ?-Shapes.- The Euler Number of Discretized Sets — On the Choice of Adjacency in Homogeneous Lattices.- Shape Statistics for Random Domains and Particles.- A Survey on Contact Distributions.- Mark Correlations: Relating Physical Properties to Spatial Distributions.- Spatial Jump Processes and Perfect Simulation.- Statistics for Non-sparse Spatially Homogeneous Gibbs Point Processes.- Spatial Statistics of a Turbulent Random Multiplicative Branching Process.

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Dietrich Stoyan, geboren 1940, war Mathematik-Professor an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, von 1991 bis 1997 ihr Rektor. Er publizierte zahlreiche mathematische Bücher und ist Mitglied der Leopoldina und anderer Wissenschaftsakademien. In letzter Zeit widmet er sich der Freiberger Universitätsgeschichte.

Blurb

The morphology of spatially stuctured materials is a rapidly growing field of research at the interface of statistical physics, applied mathematics and materials science. A wide spectrum of applications encompasses the flow through porous and composite materials as well as microemulsions and foams. Written as a set of lectures and tutorial reviews leading up to the forefront of research, this book will be both a compendium for the experienced researcher as well as a high level introductory text for postgraduate students and nonspecialist researchers working in related areas.