Statistical Physics of Fluids: Basic Concepts and Applications

✍ Scribed by Dr. V. I. Kalikmanov (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: Texts and Monographs in Physics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book focuses on the main physical ideas and mathematical methods of the microscopic theory of fluids, starting with the basic principles of statistical mechanics. The detailed derivation of results is accompanied by explanation of their physical meaning. The same approach refers to several specialized topics of the liquid state, most of which are recent developments, such as: a perturbation approach to the surface tension, an algebraic perturbation theory of polar nonpolarizable fluids and ferrocolloids, a semi-phenomenological theory of the Tolman length and some others. The book addresses researchers as well as graduate students in physics and chemistry with research interests in the statistical physics of fluids.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Ensembles in statistical mechanics....Pages 1-27
Method of correlation functions....Pages 29-36
Equations of state....Pages 37-48
Liquid-vapor interface....Pages 49-56
Perturbation approach....Pages 57-81
Equilibrium phase transitions....Pages 83-102
Monte Carlo methods....Pages 103-131
Theories of correlation functions....Pages 133-149
Density functional theory....Pages 151-168
Real gases....Pages 169-182
Surface tension of a curved interface....Pages 183-193
Polar fluids....Pages 195-208
Mixtures....Pages 209-222
Ferrofluids....Pages 223-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-260

✦ Subjects

Engineering Fluid Dynamics;Classical Continuum Physics;Condensed Matter Physics;Fluid- and Aerodynamics;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity;Thermodynamics