Stability of Thermodynamic Systems

Proceedings of the Meeting Held at Bellaterra School of Thermodynamics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain, September 1981

336 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Thermodynamic theory of stability.- Mathematical methods in stability theory.- Some physical mechanisms of hydrodynamical instabilities.- Hydrodynamic fluctuations near the Rayleigh-Benard instability.- Some topics about the transition to turbulence.- Experimental aspects of the transition to turbulence in Rayleigh-Bénard convection.- Heat flux in convective instabilities.- Unstable flows of concentrated suspensions.- Dissipative structures and oscillations in reaction-diffusion models with or without time-delay.- Fluctuations in electromagnetic systems.- Instabilities in ecology.- Strange attractors.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics
• Themen: Technologie, Ingenieurswissenschaft, Landwirtschaft, Industrieprozesse Technologie, allgemein Mathematik für Ingenieure
• ISBN: 9783540115816
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.1982
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: J. Casas-Vazques, G. Lebon