The Statistical Mechanics of Irreversible Phenomena

ISBN-13: 9781108473729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 450 str.

Pierre (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) Gaspard

Opis

A comprehensive overview of recent progress in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, including applications across a range of disciplines.

Spis treści

1. Thermodynamics; 2. Statistical mechanics; 3. Hydrodynamics; 4. Stochastic processes; 5. Fluctuation relations for energy and particle fluxes; 6. Path probabilities, temporal disorder, and irreversibility; 7. Driven Brownian particles and related systems; 8. Effusion processes; 9. Processes in dilute and rarefied gases; 10. Fluctuating chemohydrodynamics; 11. Reactions; 12. Active processes; 13. Transport in Hamiltonian dynamical models; 14. Quantum statistical mechanics; 15. Transport in open quantum systems; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Appendix F; References: Index.