The Statistical Mechanics of Irreversible Phenomena

Author:   Pierre Gaspard (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781108473729


Pages:   450
Publication Date:   28 July 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Pierre Gaspard (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   1.350kg
ISBN:  

9781108473729


ISBN 10:   1108473725
Pages:   450
Publication Date:   28 July 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Pierre Gaspard is a Professor in Physics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems. He is the author of the book, Chaos, Scattering and Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and has published over 200 related papers in the fields of statistical physics, nonlinear physics and chemical physics.

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