Solids Far from Equilibrium (Collection Alea-Saclay: Monographs and Texts in Statistical Physics)

Cambridge University Press, 1/9/1992
EAN 9780521411707, ISBN10: 052141170X

Hardcover, 608 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm
Language: English

Originally published in 1991, this book, based on the 1989 Beg-Rohu summer school, contains six sets of pedagogical lectures by internationally respected researchers on the statistical physics of crystal growth. Providing a course in which the phenomena of shape and growth are viewed from a fresh vantage point, the lectures cover a variety of developments in the field and reflect on problems that have received inadequate attention. Statistical physicists, condensed matter physicists, metallurgists, and applied mathematicians will find this a stimulating and valuable book on an important topic.

Preface
1. Shape and growth of crystals P. Nozières
2. Instabilities of planar solidification fronts B. Caroli, C. Caroli and B. Roulet
3. An introduction to the kinetics of first-order phase transition J. S. Langer
4. Dendritic growth and related topics Y. Pomeau and M. Ben Amar
5. Growth and aggregation far from equilibrium L. M. Sander
6. Kinetic roughening of growing surfaces J. Krug and H. Spohn
Acknowledgements
References
Index.