Generalized Statistical Thermodynamics Thermodynamics of Probability Distributions and Stochastic Processes /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Matsoukas, Themis (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Θέματα: Statistical physics.; Coding theory.; Information theory.; Probabilities.; Chemical engineering.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.; Coding and Information Theory.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.

This book gives the definitive mathematical answer to what thermodynamics really is: a variational calculus applied to probability distributions. Extending Gibbs's notion of ensemble, the Author imagines the ensemble of all possible probability distributions and assigns probabilities to them by...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter1: Evolution of Ideas on Entropy
• Chapter2: The Cluster Ensemble
• Chapter3: Thermodynamic Limit (ThL)
• Chapter4: The Most Probable Distribution in the Continuous Limit.-Chapter5: Phase Transitions - The Giant Cluster
• Chapter6: The Bicomponent Ensemble
• Chapter7: Generalized Thermodynamics
• Chapter8: Irreversible Clustering
• Chapter9: Kinetic Gelation
• Chapter10: Fragmentation and Shattering.