Contemporary kinetic theory of matter / J.R, Dorfman, Henk van Beijeren, and T.R. Kirkpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorfman, J. Robert (Jay Robert), 1937- author.

Beijeren, H. van (Henk), author.

Kirkpatrick, T. R. (Theodore Ross), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinetic theory of matter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 631 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Kinetic theory provides a microscopic description of many observable, macroscopic processes and has a wide range of important applications in physics, astronomy, chemistry, and engineering. This powerful, theoretical framework allows a quantitative treatment of many non-equilibrium phenomena such as transport processes in classical and quantum fluids. This book describes in detail the Boltzmann equation theory, obtained in both traditional and modern ways. Applications and generalizations describing non-equilibrium processes in a variety of systems are also covered, including dilute and moderately dense gases, particles in random media, hard sphere crystals, condensed Bose-Einstein gases, and granular materials. Fluctuation phenomena in non-equilibrium fluids, and related non-analyticities in the hydrodynamic equations are also discussed in some detail. A thorough examination of many topics concerning time dependent phenomena in material systems, this book describes both current knowledge as well as future directions of the field.

Contents:

The Boltzmann equation 1 : fundamentals

The Boltzmann equation 2 : fluid dynamics

Dilute gas mixtures

The dilute Lorentz gas

Basic tools

Enskog theory : dense hard sphere systems

The Boltzmann-Langevin equation

Granular gases

Quantum gases

Cluster expansions

Divergences and resummations

Long time tails

Non-equilibrium steady states

What's next.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-03822-2

1-009-03842-7

1-139-02594-5

OCLC:

1240262574