Aggregation Phenomena in Complex Systems: Principles and Applications - Hardcover

Schmelzer, Jürn W. P.; Röpke, Gerd; Mahnke, Reinhard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 352729354X ISBN 13: 9783527293544

Publisher: Wiley VCH, 1999

Synopsis

Aggregation phenomena such as the formation of droplets at the gas–liquid phase transition play a major role in a variety of processes in nature and technology.

This comprehensive text introduces the reader to the physics of aggregation phenomena. The first part gives a brief survey of the physics of highly nonlinear, complex systems and the basic methods of their description. Different analytical theories (nucleation and growth, spinodal decomposition etc.) are discussed in detail, and an overview on computer simulation methods (stochastic approaches, Monte Carlo methods, cellular automata models) of aggregation phenomena is presented. A separate chapter is devoted to the concepts of self similarity and self–organized criticality.

The second part presents applications to different specific processes (nucleation and growth in expanding matter, multifragmentation in nuclear collisions, evolution of the element size distribution in the early universe, segregation in porous materials, spinodal decomposition in adiabatically isolated systems, aggregation in traffic flow).

An inspiring reading, this volume serves also as a source of recent information in the highly exciting and rapidly developing field of the analysis of complex systems.

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Review

"...valuable for scientists who deal with aggregation processes in physical and chemical systems..." -- Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 4th February 2000

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley VCH
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 352729354X
• ISBN 13: 9783527293544
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 475