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Although their scope and methodologies overlap somewhat, one can distinguish the following main concepts and tools: self-organization, nonlinear dynamics, synergetics, turbulence, dynamical systems, catastrophes, instabilities, stochastic processes, chaos, graphs and networks, cellular automata, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms and computational intelligence. Models of such systems can be successfully mapped onto quite diverse “real-life” situations like the climate, the coherent emission of light from lasers, chemical reaction-diffusion systems, biological cellular networks, the dynamics of stock markets and of the Internet, earthquake statistics and prediction, freeway traffic, the human brain, or the formation of opinions in social systems, to name just some of the popular applications. Complex Systems are systems that comprise many interacting parts with the ability to generate a new quality of macroscopic collective behavior the manifestations of which are the spontaneous formation of distinctive temporal, spatial or functional structures. Springer Complexity Springer Complexity is an interdisciplinary program publishing the best research and academic-level teaching on both fundamental and applied aspects of complex systems- cutting across all traditional disciplines of the natural and life sciences, engineering, economics, medicine, neuroscience, social and computer science. Generalized Statistical Thermodynamics Thermodynamics of Probability Distributions and Stochastic Processes Kinetic Gelation (Themis Matsoukas).Pages 289-323įragmentation and Shattering (Themis Matsoukas).Pages 325-348īack Matter. Irreversible Clustering (Themis Matsoukas).Pages 241-287 Generalized Thermodynamics (Themis Matsoukas).Pages 197-239 The Bicomponent Ensemble (Themis Matsoukas).Pages 163-195 Phase Transitions: The Giant Cluster (Themis Matsoukas).Pages 125-161 The Most Probable Distribution in the Continuous Limit (Themis Matsoukas).Pages 99-123 Thermodynamic Limit (ThL) (Themis Matsoukas).Pages 65-97 The Cluster Ensemble (Themis Matsoukas).Pages 23-64 Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures, Second Edition is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students taking a course in thermodynamics. Solutions to exercises and supplementary lecture material provided online at. Includes problem sets to help the reader understand and apply the principles introduced throughout the text. Introduces students to computational methods using updated Mathematica codes.
Highlights a wide range of applications relevant to students across physical sciences and engineering courses. Covers new material on self-organization in non-equilibrium systems and the thermodynamics of small systems. Presents new material on solar and wind energy flows and energy flows of interest to engineering. Fully revised and expanded, this new edition includes the following updates and features: Includes a completely new chapter on Principles of Statistical Thermodynamics. This comprehensive text, suitable for introductory as well as advanced courses on thermodynamics, has been widely used by chemists, physicists, engineers and geologists.
Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures, Second Edition presents a comprehensive introduction to 20th century thermodynamics that can be applied to both equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems, unifying what was traditionally divided into ‘thermodynamics’ and ‘kinetics’ into one theory of irreversible processes. From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures"