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Jean Karl Platten
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Service de Chimie Physique Thermodynamique, Université de l’Etat à Mons, Faculté des Sciences, Mons, Belgique
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Jean Claude Legros
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Ecole Polytechnique, Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgique
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
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- Jean Karl Platten, Jean Claude Legros
Pages 2-76
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- Jean Karl Platten, Jean Claude Legros
Pages 77-146
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Fluids at Constant Density, Isothermal Forced Convection
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- Jean Karl Platten, Jean Claude Legros
Pages 147-253
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- Jean Karl Platten, Jean Claude Legros
Pages 254-290
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- Jean Karl Platten, Jean Claude Legros
Pages 291-314
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Non Isothermal One Component Systems
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- Jean Karl Platten, Jean Claude Legros
Pages 315-499
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- Jean Karl Platten, Jean Claude Legros
Pages 500-528
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- Jean Karl Platten, Jean Claude Legros
Pages 529-566
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Multicomponent Systems
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- Jean Karl Platten, Jean Claude Legros
Pages 567-656
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- Jean Karl Platten, Jean Claude Legros
Pages 657-675
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Back Matter
Pages 676-679
About this book
Both of the authors of this book are disciples and collaborators of the Brussels school of thermodynamics. Their particular domain of competence is the application of numerical methods to the many highly nonlinear problems which have arisen in the context of recent developments in the thermodynamics of irreversi ble processes: stability of states far from equilibrium, search for marginal critical states, bifwrcation phenomena, multiple stationnary states, dissipative structures, etc. These problems cannot in general be handled using only the clas sical and mathematically rigorous methods of the theory of differential, partial differential, and int~grodifferential equations. The present authors demonstrate how approximate methods, re lyi ng usually on powerful computers, lead to significant progress in these areas, if one is prepa red to accept a certain lack of rigor, such as, for example, the lack of proof for the convergence of the series used in the context of problems which are not self adjoint, nor even linear. The results thus obtained must consequently be submit ted to an exacting confrontation with experimental observations. - Even though, the '1 imited information obtained concerning the, often unsuspec ted, mechanisms underlying the observed phenomena is both precious and frequently sufficient. This information results from the properties of the trial functions best suited to the constraints of the problem such as the initial, boundary, and "feedback" conditions, and the analysis of their behavior in the course of the evolution of the system.
Authors and Affiliations
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Service de Chimie Physique Thermodynamique, Université de l’Etat à Mons, Faculté des Sciences, Mons, Belgique
Jean Karl Platten
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Ecole Polytechnique, Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgique
Jean Claude Legros
