Chaos, Scattering and Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge Nonlinear Science Series) by Pierre Gaspard

Cambridge Nonlinear Science

by Pierre Gaspard

This book describes new results at the frontier of chaos theory applied to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and to chaotic scattering. Interest in the results of studies of the foundations of statistical mechanics from the viewpoint of chaos theory has been growing worldwide. The author describes how to characterize chaos and sensitivity to initial conditions, especially in Hamiltonian systems and billiards. These methods are then applied to scattering and reaction processes as well as to transport such as diffusion or viscosity as studied in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, or the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Hardcover

First published May 21, 1998