Recent Developments in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Fluids and Related Topics
Proceedings of the Meeting Held at Bellaterra School of Thermodynamics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Catalonia, Spain, September 16-20, 1985
Published on 1. July 1986
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392 pages
978-3-540-16489-0 (ISBN)
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Lectures on the statistical thermodynamics of nonequilibrium steady states.- Non-equilibrium fluctuations: Noise and correlation functions in some systems.- Nonlinear transport and mode coupling in fluids under shear.- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical physics of the liquid-vapour interface.- Hydrodynamic interactions and transport-properties of suspensions.- Functional poisson brackets for nonlinear fluid mechanics equations.- Lorentz models revisited what one can learn from ants in a labyrinth.- Noise induced transitions.- An introduction to nonequilibrium problems involving electromagnetic radiation.- Scalar fluctuations from extended non-equilibrium thermodynamic states.- Extended thermodynamics and diffusion in binary mixtures.- Nonequilibrium plasma in highly photo-excited semiconductors.- Relaxation times in a bistable system: Theory and experiment.- Some dynamical aspects of the Freedericksz transition.- Local equilibrium approximation in Fokker-Planck models.- Brownian motion in concentrated suspensions.- Mutual diffusion in a binary mixture.- Comments on shock wave structure.- Generalized extended nonequilibrium thermodynamics of diffusion in paramagnetics.- Casuality problem in the relativistic kinetic theory.- Solution of the model Boltzmann-Lorentz equations for particles with spin.- A microscopic derivation of the generalized Onsager's theory.- Correlations in a laser with fluctuating pump parameter.- Integro-differential equation for the joint probability density of non-Markovian process. Properties of the correlation for short times.- Exact solutions for the stochastic Malthus-Verhulst model.- Density, electric field and voltage fluctuations around nonequilibrium steady states near the Gunn instability.- On energy exchange between multidimensional fluctuating systems in equilibrium.- Some recent advances in black hole thermodynamics.