Entropy and the Second Law -- Challenges (1870–1980) -- Modern Quantum Challenges: Theory -- Low-Temperature Experiments and Proposals -- Modern Classical Challenges -- Gravitational Challenges -- Chemical Nonequilibrium Steady States -- Plasma Paradoxes -- MEMS/NEMS Devices -- Special Topics.The second law of thermodynamics is considered one of the central laws of science, engineering and te…
S. Anantawaraskul, J.B.P. Soares, P.M. Wood-Adams: Fractionation of Semicrystalline Polymers by Crystallization Analysis Fractionation and Temperature Rising Elution Fractionation -- G.J. Vancso, H. Hillborg, H. Schönherr: Chemical Composition of Polymer Surfaces Imaged by Atomic Force Microscopy and Complementary Approaches -- S. Ito, H. Aoki: Nano-Imaging of Polymers by Optical Microscopy --…
Fractals in Geophysics and Seismology: An Introduction -- Fractal Modeling of Complex Subsurface Geological Structures -- The Route to Fractals in Magnetotelluric Exploration of the Crust -- Regularity Analysis Applied to Well Log Data -- Electrokinetic Effect in Fractal Pore Media as Seismoelectric Phenomena -- Fractal Network and Mixture Models for Elastic and Electrical Properties of Porous …
Background Material -- A Dynamical Systems Point of View -- Numerical Techniques -- The Wind-Driven Circulation -- The Thermohaline Circulation -- The Dynamics and Physics of ENSO.In this book, methodology of dynamical systems theory is applied to investigate the physics of the large-scale ocean circulation. Topics include the dynamics of western boundary currents such as the Gulf Stream in the…
Mathematical Methods -- Passive Scalar Diffusion as a Damped Wave -- Extremalizing Vector Fields as Guides Toward Understanding Properties of Turbulence -- Low-Wavenumber Forcing and Turbulent Energy Dissipation -- New Potential Symmetries for a Generalised Inhomogeneus Nonlinear Diffusion Equation -- DNS and New Scaling Laws of ZPG Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow -- Linear Instability of a Slowl…
Learning in Computational and Laboratory Experiments -- The Implementation of the Turing Tournament: A Report -- Expectations Structure in Asset Pricing Experiments -- Learning in a “Basket of Crabs”: An Agent-Based Computational Model of Repeated Conservation Auctions -- On the Benefit of Additional Information in Markets with Heterogeneously Informed Agents — an Experimental Study -- Ga…
Mathematical Preliminaries -- Vector Calculus -- Partial Differential Equations -- Theory of Generalized Convexity -- Calculus of Variations and the Optimal Control -- Miscellaneous Techniques -- Economics of Multidimensional Screening -- The Unidimensional Screening Model -- The Multidimensional Screening Model -- Beyond the Quasilinear Case -- Existence, Uniqueness, and Continuity of the Solu…
Modeling the Direct Transition to Turbulence -- Dynamical Systems and the Transition to Turbulence -- Nonlinear Solutions of Simple Plane Shear Layers with and without a System Rotation -- Co-Supporting Cycle: Sustaining Mechanism of Large-Scale Structures and Near-Wall Structures in Channel Flow Turbulence -- Transition Threshold and the Self-Sustaining Process -- Turbulent-Laminar Patterns in…