Systems Far from Equilibrium: Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, June 1980, Sitges, Barcelona/Spain

Prologue: The intrinsic Fokker-Planck equation....Pages 1-11
Kinetics of metastable states....Pages 12-47
Instability, fluctuations and critical slowing down....Pages 48-75
Spinodal decomposition....Pages 76-90
Bifurcations and symmetry — Breaking in Far from equilibrium systems....Pages 91-124
Some topics in nonequilibrium critical phenomena....Pages 125-142
Onset of convection and turbulence in a cylindrical container....Pages 143-161
The onset of turbulence: Convection, surface waves, and oscillators....Pages 162-180
Statistical dynamics of turbulence....Pages 181-197
Problems in nonlinear transport theory....Pages 198-225
Non-linear transport theory....Pages 226-243
On non-linear fluctuations from statistical mechanics....Pages 244-262
Kinetic theory of dense gases not in equilibrium....Pages 263-289
Information theory and ecological diversity....Pages 290-303
Time evolution in isolated non-equilibrium systems: The Pauli master equation revisited....Pages 306-313
Non-linear Fokker Planck equations: Characteristics of eigenfunctions....Pages 314-319
Entropy, action and the onsager-machlup function....Pages 320-327
“Non-classical” threshold behaviour at far from equilibrium instabilities....Pages 328-336
Simulation study of the critical behaviour of a chemical model system....Pages 337-344
Order and turbulence in one-dimension....Pages 345-351
Extended irreversible thermodynamics: Evolution and fluctuations of dissipative fluxes....Pages 352-358
Thermodynamic modeling of systems far from equilibrium....Pages 359-368
Aspects of nucleation in tricritical systems....Pages 369-372
Adiabatic Hamiltonian deformation, linear response theory, and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics....Pages 373-380
Different routes to turbulence in high Prandtl number convection and in rectangular cells: Influence of the aspect ratio and of the structure....Pages 381-394
Experiments on phase transitions due to the external fluctuation....Pages 395-402
Hopping models for ultrasonic absorption in dilute polymer solutions....Pages 403-403
Stochastic dynamic approach to the decay of an unstable state....Pages 403-403