Thermodynamics of Chaotic Systems - An Introduction

Zusammenfassung The book is written for students and scientists working in physics and related fields. It deals with thermodynamic methods used in nonlinear dynamics! a special branch of statistical physics. An easily readable introduction! the book can also be used as a textbook for special courses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Essentials of Nonlinear Dynamics: 1. Nonlinear mappings; 2. Probability in the theory of chaotic systems; 3. Symbolic dynamics; Part II. Essentials of Information Theory and Thermodynamics: 4. The Shannon information; 5. Further information measures; 6. Generalized canonical distributions; 7. The fundamental thermodynamic relations; 8. Spin systems; Part III. Thermostatistics of Multifractals: 9. Escort distributions; 10. Fractals; 11. Multifractals; 12. Bit cumulants in multifractal distribution; 13. Thermodynamics of a finite volume; Part IV. Dynamical Analysis of Chaotic Systems: 14. Statistics of dynamical symbol sequences; 15. Expansion rate and information loss; 16. The topological pressure; 17. Transfer operator methods; 18. Repellers and escape; Part V. Advanced Thermodynamics: 19. Thermodynamics of expanding maps; 20. Thermodynamics with several intensive parameters; 21. Phase transitions.

Product details

• Authors: C. Beck, Christian Beck, Christian Schlogl Beck, Friedrich Schlogl, Friedrich Schogl
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.1995
• EAN: 9780521484510
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48451-0
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Cambridge Nonlinear Science
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Thermodynamics