Author : Liudmila A Pozhar
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814590853
Transport Theory Of Inhomogeneous Fluids by Liudmila A Pozhar Pdf
Until recently, the Mori-Zwanzig projection operator method, though powerful and simple, has been considered as a half-heuristic one. This book is devoted to a rigorous generalization of this method as well as its applications to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. The well-known idea of the description of dynamical system evolution in terms of collective dynamical variables has been developed to a functional perturbation theory, which results in the master equation of any given accuracy. Examples of statistical mechanics applications of the method include a linearized transport theory and explicit expressions for transport coefficients of both homogeneous and inhomogeneous liquids, which are in good agreement with experimental data and simulation results.