Aggregation phenomena in complex systems
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書誌事項
Aggregation phenomena in complex systems
Wiley-VCH, c1999
大学図書館所蔵 全30件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-442) and indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
I. GENERAL CONCEPTS Basic Principles of Self-Organization Clusters - A New State of Matter Classical Theories of Phase Transformation Processes A Stochastic Approach to Nucleation Bound State - Cluster - Droplet: A Quantum-Statistical Approach Monte Carlo Modeling of First-Order Phase Transformation Processes Pattern Formation in Cellular Automata Models Survey of Molecular Dynamics Results on Aggregation Phenomena Fractals and Fractal Aggregates Sandpile Model and Self-Organized Criticality II. SELECTED APPLICATIONS Aggregation and Structure Formation in Reaction-Diffusion Processes in Chemical Systems Number of Clusters Formed in Nucleation-Growth Processes Self-Organized Multifragmentation in Collision Processes Monte-Carlo Simulations of Nucleation in Supersaturated Vapors Pattern Formation in Segregation Processes Structure Formation by Spinodal Decomposition Clustering Processes in Traffic Flow
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