Analysis and Simulation of Fluid Dynamics
This volume collects the contributions of a Conference held in June 2005, at the laboratoire Paul Painlev́ e (UMR CNRS 8524) ...
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Classical Nucleation Theory in Multicomponent Systems
Nucleation is the initial step of every first-order phase transition, and most phase transitions encountered both in everyday ...
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Complex Nonlinearity : Chaos, Phase Transitions, Topology Change and Path Integrals
The book starts with a textbook-like expose on nonlinear dynamics, attractors and chaos, both temporal and spatio-temporal, ...
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Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVI
This status report features the most recent developments in the field, spanning a wide range of topical areas in the computer ...
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Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVIII
This volume represents a "status report" emanating from presentations made during the 18th Annual Workshop on Computer ...
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Crystallography and the World of Symmetry
Symmetry exists in realms from crystals to patterns, in external shapes of living or non-living objects, as well as in the ...
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Equilibrium Statistical Physics : Phases of Matter and Phase Transitions
This is a textbook which gradually introduces the student to the statistical mechanical study of the different phases of ...
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Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions : Volume I: Absorbing Phase Transitions
This book describes two main classes of non-equilibrium phase-transitions: (a) static and dynamics of transitions into an ...
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Non-Linear Dynamics Near and Far from Equilibrium
This text gives a detailed account of various techniques that are used in the study of dynamics of continuous systems, near ...
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Phase Transitions of Simple Systems
This monograph develops a unified microscopic basis for phases and phase changes of bulk matter and small systems in terms ...
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Rugged Free Energy Landscapes : Common Computational Approaches to Spin Glasses, Structural Glasses and Biological Macromolecules
This collection of lectures and tutorial reviews by renowned experts focusses on the common computational approaches in use ...
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Smart Materials for Ranging Systems
The problem of determining the location of an object, which is usually called ranging, attracts at present much attention ...
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The Physics of Structural Phase Transitions
This book is divided into two parts. The first part includes such topics as the Landau theory of phase transitions, statistics, ...
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