Shankar Prasad Das

Statistical Physics of Liquids at Freezing and Beyond

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of important theories for understanding freezing and the liquid-glass transition for graduate students and researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 586
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1179g
• ISBN-13: 9780521858397
• ISBN-10: 0521858399
• Artikelnr.: 31742211

Autorenporträt

Shankar Prasad Das is Professor of Physics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. During the course of his career, he has made significant contributions to the field of slow dynamics in supercooled liquids and the glass transition.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Statistical physics of liquids
2. The freezing transition
3. Crystal nucleation
4. The supercooled liquid
5. Dynamics of collective modes
6. Nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics
7. The field theoretic model
8. The ergodic-nonergodic transition
9. The nonequilibrium dynamics
10. Thermodynamic transition scenario
References
Index.