Overview

The theory of simple and complex fluids has made considerable progress due to the emergence of new concepts and theoretical tools, the availability of a large body of new experimental data on increasingly complex systems, and far-reaching developments in numerical simulation. Two clear trends emerge from the present book, first the diversity of new and unexpected theoretical results relating to classical models of liquids; and secondly, the parallel emergence of new concepts, models and methods for the investigation of complex fluids and phenomena. The book lays stress on a tutorial presentation of the main topics, including liquid structure, metastability and phase transitions, confined fluids and interfaces, complex fluids and quantum fluids.

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Author:   Carlo Caccamo ,  Jean-Pierre Hansen ,  George Stell
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Volume:   529
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.660kg
ISBN:  

9780792356714

ISBN 10:   0792356713
Pages:   521
Publication Date:   31 March 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Charged And Polar, Liquids, Phase Transitions and Metastability.- Understanding criticality: Simple fluids and ionic fluids.- Equation of state and critical behavior of simple fluid models.- Phase separation and critical phenomena in simple fluids and in binary mixtures.- Critical behaviour of the restricted primitive model (RPM).- Phase diagram of dipolar hard-core molecule systems.- New results on some ionic-fluid problems.- Fluids with internal degrees of freedom.- Replica and glasses.- Nematic to smectic: A “hard” transition.- Interfaces And Confined Fluids.- Fluids in model pores or cavities: The influence of confinement on structure and phase behaviour. I. DFT for small systems: hard spheres in a spherical cavity.- Fluids in model pores or cavities: The influence of confinement on structure and phase behaviour. II. Freezing and condensation transitions of confined fluids.- Bulk and surface properties of dipolar fluids.- Fluids in contact with structured substrates.- Liquid state methods for disordered systems.- Inhomogeneous fluids in an external field.- Free energy density functional from OD cavities.- Geometrically based free energy functional for confined hard spheres and the density functional theory for simple classical systems.- Charge-stabilized colloids confined to a slit: A case for attraction between like charged particles.- Wetting phase transitions and petroleum reservoirs.- Complex Fluids.- Atomistic computer simulation studies of surfactant systems.- On effective interactions in colloidal physics.- Theory and simulations of polymers at surfaces.- Static structure and chain conformations in polyelectrolyte solutions.- Theories of hydrophobic effects and the description of free volume in complex liquids.- Theoretical and simulation study of modelprotein solutions.- Quantum Fluids.- Ab initio liquids: Simulating liquids based on first principles.- Progress in the theory of inhomogeneous 4He.- Tight-binding lattice-gas model: Alkali fluids.- Current-density functional theory of time-dependent linear response in quantal fluids: Recent progress.- List of participants.

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