Generalized Statistical Thermodynamics : Thermodynamics of Probability Distributions and Stochastic Processes Hardback
by Themis Matsoukas
Part of the Understanding Complex Systems series
Hardback
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This book gives the definitive mathematical answer to what thermodynamics really is: a variational calculus applied to probability distributions.
Extending Gibbs's notion of ensemble, the Author imagines the ensemble of all possible probability distributions and assigns probabilities to them by selection rules that are fairly general.
The calculus of the most probable distribution in the ensemble produces the entire network of mathematical relationships we recognize as thermodynamics.
The first part of the book develops the theory for discrete and continuous distributions while the second part applies this thermodynamic calculus to problems in population balance theory and shows how the emergence of a giant component in aggregation, and the shattering transition in fragmentation may be treated as formal phase transitions. While the book is intended as a research monograph, the material is self-contained and the style sufficiently tutorial to be accessible forself-paced study by an advanced graduate student in such fields as physics, chemistry, and engineering.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:363 pages, 55 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; XXI, 363 p. 57 illus., 55 illu
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:20/05/2019
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- ISBN:9783030041489
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:363 pages, 55 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; XXI, 363 p. 57 illus., 55 illu
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:20/05/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030041489
