Basic Concepts for Simple and Complex Liquids

Jean-Louis Barrat, Jean-Pierre Hansen

308 pages, parution le 13/03/2003

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Résumé

Presenting a unified approach to the liquid state, this book focusses on the concepts and theoretical methods that are necessary for an understanding of the physics and chemistry of the fluid state. The authors do not attempt to cover the whole field in an encyclopedic manner. Instead, important ideas are presented in a concise and rigorous style, and illustrated with examples from both simple molecular liquids and more complex soft condensed matter systems such as polymers, colloids, and liquid crystals. After a general chapter introducing the liquid state, the book is in four parts devoted to: thermodynamics; structure and fluctuations; phase transitions, interfaces and inhomogeneous fluids; and, finally, transport and dynamics. Each chapter introduces a new set of closely related concepts and theoretical methods, which are then illustrated by a number of specific applications covering a broad range of physical situations.

Contents

An introduction to liquid matter

Part I. Thermodynamics, Structure and Fluctuations

A reminder of thermodynamics
Equilibrium fluctuations

Part II. Phase Transitions

Mean field approaches
Critical fluctuations and scaling

Part III. Interfaces and Inhomogeneous Fluids

Macroscopic description of interfaces
The density functional approach
Curvature and fluctuations

Part IV. Dynamics

Phenomenological description of transport processes
Brownian motion, diffusion and the Langevin equation
Response and correlation functions
Slow relaxations

L'auteur - Jean-Pierre Hansen

Jean-Pierre Hansen, ingénieur et économiste, a dirigé pendant plus de vingt ans de grandes sociétés d'énergie et de services. Il a été professeur à l'Ecole polytechnique et à l'Université catholique de Louvain. Il est aujourd'hui membre de l'Académie royale de Belgique et membre correspondant de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques.

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Jean-Louis Barrat, Jean-Pierre Hansen
Parution	13/03/2003
Nb. de pages	308
Format	17,5 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	631g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521789530
ISBN13	978-0-521-78953-0