Models of Phase Transitions

Augusto Visintin

ISBN 10: 1461286417 / ISBN 13: 9781461286417

Verlag: Birkhäuser Boston, Birkhäuser Boston Sep 2011, 2011

Beschreibung

Neuware -. 'What do you call work ' 'Why ain't that work ' Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: 'Well. lI1a),he it is, and maybe it aill't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawvc/:' 'Oil CO/lll!, IIOW, Will do not mean to let 011 that you like it ' The brush continued to move. 'Likc it Well, I do not see wlzy I oughtn't to like it. Does a hoy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day ' That put the thing ill a Ilew light. Ben stopped nibhling the apple . (From Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter II.) Mathematics can put quantitative phenomena in a new light; in turn applications may provide a vivid support for mathematical concepts. This volume illustrates some aspects of the mathematical treatment of phase transitions, namely, the classical Stefan problem and its generalizations. The in tended reader is a researcher in application-oriented mathematics. An effort has been made to make a part of the book accessible to beginners, as well as physicists and engineers with a mathematical background. Some room has also been devoted to illustrate analytical tools. This volume deals with research I initiated when I was affiliated with the Istituto di Analisi Numerica del C.N.R. in Pavia, and then continued at the Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita di Trento. It was typeset by the author in plain TEX.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 340 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Models of Phase Transitions
• Verlag: Birkhäuser Boston, Birkhäuser Boston Sep 2011
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1461286417
• ISBN-13: 9781461286417
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 235B x 155 H x 19 T Millimeter Breite: 235 mm, Höhe: 155 mm, Tiefe: 19 mm
• Gewicht: 517 Gramm

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... "What do you call work?" "Why ain't that work?" Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well. lI1a),he it is, and maybe it aill't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawvc/:" "Oil CO/lll!, IIOW, Will do not mean to let 011 that you like it?" The brush continued to move. "Likc it? Well, I do not see wlzy I oughtn't to like it. Does a hoy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" That put the thing ill a Ilew light. Ben stopped nibhling the apple .... (From Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter II.) Mathematics can put quantitative phenomena in a new light; in turn applications may provide a vivid support for mathematical concepts. This volume illustrates some aspects of the mathematical treatment of phase transitions, namely, the classical Stefan problem and its generalizations. The in­ tended reader is a researcher in application-oriented mathematics. An effort has been made to make a part of the book accessible to beginners, as well as physicists and engineers with a mathematical background. Some room has also been devoted to illustrate analytical tools. This volume deals with research I initiated when I was affiliated with the Istituto di Analisi Numerica del C.N.R. in Pavia, and then continued at the Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita di Trento. It was typeset by the author in plain TEX.

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"The book is well organized, concise and clearly written with a strict interplay between physics and mathematics... Largely self-contained ... highly recommended to all graduate students and reserachers in applied mathematics."

--ZAA