Stability of Thermodynamic Systems

Proceedings of the Meeting Held at Bellaterra School of Thermodynamics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain, September 1981
Herausgegeben:Casas-Vazques, J.; Lebon, G.

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Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Physics 164
• Verlag: Springer / Springer, Berlin
• 1982
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1982
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9783540115816
• ISBN-10: 3540115811
• Artikelnr.: 26264890

Inhaltsangabe

Thermodynamic theory of stability.- Mathematical methods in stability theory.- Some physical mechanisms of hydrodynamical instabilities.- Hydrodynamic fluctuations near the Rayleigh-Benard instability.- Some topics about the transition to turbulence.- Experimental aspects of the transition to turbulence in Rayleigh-Bénard convection.- Heat flux in convective instabilities.- Unstable flows of concentrated suspensions.- Dissipative structures and oscillations in reaction-diffusion models with or without time-delay.- Fluctuations in electromagnetic systems.- Instabilities in ecology.- Strange attractors.