Generalized Statistical Thermodynamics Thermodynamics of Probability Distributions and Stochastic Processes /

• Main Author: Matsoukas, Themis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.