Statistical physics of fluids : basic concepts and applications
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Statistical physics of fluids : basic concepts and applications
（Texts and monographs in physics）（Physics and astronomy online library）
Springer, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-256) and index
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Description
The focus is on the main physical ideas and mathematical methods of the microscopic theory of fluids, starting with the basic principles of statistical mechanics. The detailed derivation of results is accompanied by explanation of their physical meaning. The same approach refers to several specialized topics of the liquid state, most of which are recent developments, such as: a perturbation approach to the surface tension, an algebraic perturbation theory of polar nonpolarizable fluids and ferrocolloids, a semi-phenomenological theory of the Tolman length and some others.
Table of Contents
1. Ensembles in statistical mechanics.- 2. Method of correlation functions.- 3. Equations of state.- 4. Liquid-vapor interface.- 5. Perturbation approach.- 6. Equilibrium phase transitions.- 7. Monte Carlo methods.- 8. Theories of correlation functions.- 9. Density functional theory.- 10. Real gases.- 11. Surface tension of a curved interface.- 12. Polar fluids.- 13. Mixtures.- 14. Ferrofluids.- B. Angular dipole integrals.- C. De Gennes-Pincus integral.- E. Mixtures of hard spheres.- E.1 Pressure.- E.2 Chemical potentials.- References.
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