Scale invariance: from phase transitions to turbulence
Auteur :
LESNE, Annick / Laguës, Michel
Éditeur :
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN :
9783642151224
Date de publication :
4 nov. 2011
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Allemagne
During a century, from the Van der Waals mean field description (1874) of gases to the introduction of renormalization group (RG techniques 1970), thermodynamics and statistical physics were just unable to account for the incredible universality which was observed in numerous critical phenomena.