Statistics, Quantum Physics, Civil Engineering - General & Miscellaneous, Mechanical Physics - General & Miscellaneous, Chaos Theory
Chaos, Scattering and Statistical Mechanics
Pierre Gaspard, Predrag Cvitanovic (Editor), Boris Chirikov
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Overview
This book describes new results at the frontier of chaos theory applied to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and to chaotic scattering. Interest in the results of studies of the foundations of statistical mechanics from the viewpoint of chaos theory has been growing worldwide. The author describes how to characterize chaos and sensitivity to initial conditions, especially in Hamiltonian systems and billiards. These methods are then applied to scattering and reaction processes as well as to transport such as diffusion or viscosity as studied in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, or the 2nd law of thermodynamics.Book Details
Published
July 1, 2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pages
496
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780521018258