Stability of Thermodynamic Systems - Proceedings of the Meeting Held at Bellaterra School of Thermodynamics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain, September 1981

List of contents

Thermodynamic theory of stability.- Mathematical methods in stability theory.- Some physical mechanisms of hydrodynamical instabilities.- Hydrodynamic fluctuations near the Rayleigh-Benard instability.- Some topics about the transition to turbulence.- Experimental aspects of the transition to turbulence in Rayleigh-Bénard convection.- Heat flux in convective instabilities.- Unstable flows of concentrated suspensions.- Dissipative structures and oscillations in reaction-diffusion models with or without time-delay.- Fluctuations in electromagnetic systems.- Instabilities in ecology.- Strange attractors.

Product details

• Assisted by: Casas-Vazques (Editor), J Casas-Vazques (Editor), J. Casas-Vazques (Editor), Lebon (Editor), Lebon (Editor), G. Lebon (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1982
• EAN: 9783540115816
• ISBN: 978-3-540-11581-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Weight: 580 g
• Illustrations: VII, 324 p. 18 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics; Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Thermodynamics