Avalanches in Functional Materials and Geophysics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Salje, Ekhard K.H (Editor), Saxena, Avadh (Editor), Planes, Antoni (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Physics.; Geophysics.; Condensed matter.; Structural materials.; Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Structural Materials.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.

This book provides the state-of-the art of the present understanding of avalanche phenomena in both functional materials and geophysics. The main emphasis of the book is analyzing these apparently different problems within the common perspective of out-of-equilibrium phenomena displaying spatial and...