Anomalous Diffusion From Basics to Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pekalski, Andrzej (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sznajd-Weron, Katarzyna (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 519
• Subjects: Gravitation.; Physics.; Condensed matter.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.; Condensed Matter Physics.
• Physical Description: XVIII, 382 p. 57 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540492597
• ISSN: 0075-8450 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/BFb0106828

This collection of articles gives a nice overview of the fast growing field of diffusion and transport. The area of non-Browman statistical mechanics has many extensions into other fields like biology, ecology, geophysics etc. These tutorial lectures address e.g. Lévy flights and walks, diffusion on metal surfaces or in superconductors, classical diffusion, biased and anomalous diffusion, chemical reaction diffusion, aging in glassy systems, diffusion in soft matter and in nonsymmetric potentials, and also new problems like diffusive processes in econophysics and in biology.