Models for Polymeric and Anisotropic Liquids (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Models should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. For the physics of polymeric liquids, whose relevant lengths and time scales are out of reach for first principles calculations, this means that we have to choose a minimum set of sufficiently detailed descriptors such as architecture (linear, ring, branched), connectivity, semiflexibility, stretchability, excluded volume, and hydrodynamic interaction. These 'universal' fluids allow the prediction of material properties under external flow- or electrodynamic fields, the results being expressed in terms of reference units, specific for any particular chosen material. This book provides an introduction to the kinetic theory and computer simulation methods needed to handle these models and to interpret the results. Also included are a number of sample applications and computer codes.

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Book review published in Applied Rheology - international journal.......2006-02-14

This new volume of Springer's successful series 'Lecture Notes in Physics' presents a variety of simple models for the structure and dynamics of complex fluids. Special emphasize is paid to the finitely extendable nonlinear elastic (FENE) spring model of polymeric fluids and several of its extensions. Suspensions of elongated particles, liquid crystals and ferrofluids are also treated, however in a rather compressed manner. Most, if not all, of the examples given in the book are taken from the author's collaborative work.

This well-organized book is divided into two parts. Part I introduces and illustrates the different models and discusses their structural and dynamical properties. Part II provides theoretical background on the topic, such as tensor calculus, methods and sample codes, in order to help the reader to do some analytical calculations himself as well as to start his or her own simulations.

Chapter 1 starts with an introduction about the aims and projects of the book and ends with a very valuable section- by-section summary. This summary provides an easy access to the different topics dealt within the book. Moreover, it can be used as a guideline through the book for those readers that are interested only in very specific aspects. The classical FENE dumbbell model of dilute polymer solutions introduced in the beginning of Chapter 2 is the first of 15 models presented in part I of the book. Thereafter, an extension of the FENE dumbbell model to the semi-dilute regime by introducing a mean-field interaction potential is discussed. The second type of models dealt within the book (chapter 3) are FENE chain models of dilute polymer solutions. Hydrodynamic interactions are introduced and some details on their numerical implementation in Brownian dynamics simulations are given. The chapter ends with a summary of the universal ratios of physical quantities which are observed in dilute solutions. While chapters 2 and 3 deal with dilute solutions, chapters 4, 5, and 6 are concerned with concentrated solutions and polymer melts. Taking into account excluded volume interactions, the application of the FENE chain model to concentrated solutions and melts is treated in chapter 4. The nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation method which is used to solve the model numerically is mentioned briefly. After discussing the flow curves predicted by this model, the stress-optical rule, its failure and possible nonlinear generalization is presented in some detail. Wormlike chains and micelles, semiflexible and liquid crystalline polymers are all treated in Chapter 5. Allowing for scission and recombinations, the FENE chain model is extended to model wormlike micelles. An approximate calculation of the chain length distribution based on ideal Gaussian chains is one of a few examples in Part I of the book where an analytical approach to these models is shown. Static properties of wormlike chains are first reviewed and later used for an extension of the FENE chain model to semiflexible chains. Further, allowing for inhomogeneous chains which inter-chain attractive interactions, an extension of the FENE model to liquid crystalline polymers is proposed which is able to describe isotropic, nematic as well as smectic phases. The Doi-Edwards model of polymer melts is introduced in Chapter 6 together with a refinement including anisotropic tube renewal. The predictions of viscoelastic and orientational properties are presented and a possible closure approximation is discussed. Their recent improvements on the original Doi-Edwards model like double reptation, convected constrained release are, however, left out. Chapter 7 is devoted to suspensions of rigid particles. In this chapter, not only the Ericksen-Leslie theory of anisotropic suspensions and its possible derivation from a Fokker-Planck equation is discussed, but also models for ferrofluids and liquid crystals are presented in a unifying fashion. Chapter 7 concludes the presentation of different models for complex fluids and their structural and dynamical properties. On the first sight, the following chapter on the relation of different levels of descriptions seems somehow disconnected from the rest of the book. However, a more thorough approach touches on these issues in the derivation of the models presented in the preceeding chapters, the choice of the model parameters, and the relation to more simplified models. This very active field of multi-scale modeling and coarse-grained description is not covered explicitly in this book. Instead, Chapter 8 presents a thermodynamically-guided approach to reduced description proposed and explored by Ötinger and the author in the last years. The author describes this promising approach in a very comprehensive manner, from the theoretical relation between different levels of description to example applications and numerical tests in computer simulations.

Part II of the book is rather technical and provides concepts of equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical physics which are used to obtain the results discussed in part I. First, a very brief summary of standard and recent Monte Carlo simulation techniques is presented in chapter 9. Then, a chapter on tensor calculus is added, where the notation used in the book is explained in detail. The Fokker-Planck equation, playing a central role in part I, is treated in chapter 11. Finally, chapter 12 provides a very useful collection of sample codes illustrating various models discussed in the first part of the book. The codes written in the MATLAB language are sufficiently transparent in order to demonstrate the numerical implementation even to those readers who are not very familiar with programming issues.

Rather than trying to cover all fluids in the field, 'Models for Polymeric and anisotropic liquids' focuses on some selected models and provides ideas and tools needed to explore new applications. On roughly 200 pages, the author covers a considerable number of different systems and the corresponding models. This nicely written book compactly describes these models which are mostly different extensions of the FENE chain model on various levels of abstraction. Together with the example codes provided for in chapter 12, readers familiar with polymer physics and rheology will benefit form the clear presentation which stimulates one's own investigations.With chapter 8 on a particular approach to reduced description, the reader is also introduced to the current status of one of the very promising developments in this field. Author: Patrick Ilg. Published in Applied Rheology - international journal.

Global Solutions of Reaction-Diffusion Systems (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

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Global Solutions of Reaction-Diffusion Systems (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
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Lecture Notes on Solution Chemistry
Viktor Gutmann , and Gerhard Resch
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This book emphasises those features in solution chemistry which are difficult to measure, but essential for the understanding of both the qualitative and the quantitative aspects. Attention is paid to the mutual influences between solute and solvent, even at extremely small concentrations of the former. The described extension of the molecular concept leads to a broad view - not by a change in paradigm - but by finding the rules for the organizations both at the molecular and the supermolecular level of liquid and solid solutions.

Electrical Double Layer at a Metal-Dilute Electrolyte Solution Interface (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Electrical Double Layer at a Metal-Dilute Electrolyte Solution Interface (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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Transport, Relaxation, and Kinetic Processes in Electrolyte Solutions (Lecture Notes in Chemistry)

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Transport, Relaxation, and Kinetic Processes in Electrolyte Solutions (Lecture Notes in Chemistry)
Pierre Turq
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The subject of this book is the treatment of transport phenomena in electrolyte solutions and their natural coupling with ionic reactions. The topic is treated at the level of lectures for 3rd year undergraduate students in physical chemistry. The knowledge in statistical mechanics, hydrodynamics and electrodynamics needed for the understanding of the book as well as the necessary mathematical techniques are introduced in a simple and concise way. Treatment of coupled transport and kinetic processes is introduced with normal modes analysis yielding a clear separation of relaxation and propagative modes. The book is conceived at the level of one-particle hydrodynamic continuity equations. Extension beyond the level of ideal multicomponent systems are given at the level of chemical model (CM) and mean spherical approximation (MSA) calculations.

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Excellent Writing.......2001-08-24

A really informative introduction to Darwin, his ideas, his works, and his impact on science and society. Young people will get a great deal out this volume and will find it perfect for writing reports or preparing for classroom discussions. On the other hand, adults unfamiliar with Darwin's ideas will benefit from the author's impressive job organizing and explaining some potentially difficult to understand material.

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (The Works of Charles Darwin)

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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (The Works of Charles Darwin)
Charles Darwin
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It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable.

To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.

Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin

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It was sold out on its first day of publication in 1859. It is the major book of the last century and remains the most readable and accessible of all the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. It beguiled then and still does today.

Darwin's aim was to show the probability that every species is a development from previous species, which implied that man evolved from earlier and different forms of life. Darwin concluded that there exists a "natural selection" of favorable variations, which in the course of years succeeds in producing a variety of living things through this process of evolution.

Darwin, like Freud after him, transformed the way people thought about God, the world around them, other people and themselves.

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In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by 'natural selection'. Development, diversification, decay, extinction and absence of plan are all inherent to his theories. Darwin read prodigiously across many fields; he reflected on his experiences as a traveller, he experimented. His profoundly influential concept of 'natural selection' condenses materials from past and present, from the Galapagos Islands to rural Staffordshire, from English back gardens to colonial encounters. The Origin communicates the enthusiasm of original thinking in an open, descriptive style, and Darwin's emphasis on the value of diversity speaks more strongly now than ever.

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Elegantly brilliant.......2007-09-17

I had read The Voyage of the Beagle first. It is easy to see how Darwin's theory of evolution was growing as he traveled and saw how plants and animals adapted to different environments. Then he invented a theory to explain what he had observed.
This book is a 300 page definition of the theory of natural selection. Darwin goes through a detailed explanation of how evolution must have occured. He is very methodically, very detailed. When he doesn't understand something, he says he doesn't. He is humble in his presentation, giving credit to other scientists. I was amazed at how many experiments he performed himself, growing generations of plants and insects, watching how they developed and changed.
There is a quote in the book from Darwin's gardener who said, "He's really a sad little man. Sometimes he stands and stares at a flower for hours. I really think he'd be better off if he had something to do."
We are so lucky that Darwin inherited money and could spend his early years traveling and his later years in contemplation and writing.

More Christian propaganda to seperate people.......2007-07-31

Darwin was a born again Christian. Few people know that. And if there's one thing you need to know about Christians it's the fact that they are always trying to put one group of people against another. Divide and conquer. Darwin's plan(actually the plan of the intelligentsia that Darwin was a member of) was to create a new theory for the creation of man and then use Christian beliefs to blow it out of the water. It didn't work though. Even though Darwin picked the most crazy idea he came up with, man coming from monkeys!!!, people began to believe it. The powers that be saw that Science could very well be a new religous dogma and people would believe anything as long as a man in a white coat said it. Besides everyone knows that Allah created man in his supreme mercy, Allah Akhbar!!

Great edition.......2007-06-02

I liked the edition very much. Its legibility is very nice and it's a lightweighted version, dispite its 470 pages. I was just disapointed with the illustrations, that have very little relation to the text. But this fact doesnt compromise the quality of the whole. And the content... well, it's darwin world changing work, very readable.

One of the Greatest Books ever written.......2007-05-12

Darwin was one of the most brilliant men who ever lived. He was perhaps the greatest observer the world has known. In 1831, he set sail on the Beagle, a tiny little ship, for a five-year cruise around the world, and without pay, as naturalist. He had studied theology, medicine, and, finally, biology and geology. He saw how organisms change with time and environment and how Biblical events simply could not have happened as stated. He spent twenty-three years going over his notes, rethinking, and agonizing over the results. In 1859, he published Origin of Species, and it upset the world. He demonstrated evolution as no one had. Uneducated religious leaders may ridicule it, but evolution is a fact, accepted by any intelligent, educated, honest person.

A Handy Edition of this Vital Classic.......2007-05-11

There are many different versions of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" available, but I found this one particularly helpful. First, while it is nicely printed and easy to read on good paper, it is not terribly expensive. Second, it reprints the first or original version of the book which Darwin subsequently modified substantially in the the further five editions he published. Third, it also includes Darwin's "Historical Sketch" and "glossary" which had not appeared in the first edition. Fourth, the color cover illustration by the Victorian artist Henry de la Beche is an important indicator of why the Victorians were so into prehistoric studies. However, the thing that really distinguishes this Penguin Books edition is the incredibily incisive and invaluable introduction by the editor, J.W. Burrow. Burrow is beyond question one of the most significant intellectual historians of our time. Among other things he has written extensively on the concept of evolution in Victorian thought in his classic "Evolution and Society: A Study in Victorian Social Theory." In 37 crisp pages, Burrow incomparably sketches the Victorian intellectual background against which Darwin wrote. Although the essay is nearly 40 years old, it has stood the test of time very well. It alone is worth the price of the book. Altogether, a very nice introduction to this critical event in scientific and intellectual history.

The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 15: On the Origin of the Species, 1859 (Works of Charles Darwin)

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Are they needed? To be sure. The Darwinian industry, industrious though it is, has failed to provide texts of more than a handful of Darwin's books. If you want to know what Darwin said about barnacles (still an essential reference to cirripedists, apart from any historical importance) you are forced to search shelves, or wait while someone does it for you; some have been in print for a century; various reprints have appeared and since vanished."
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Charles Robert Darwin (1880-1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been extended by almost continuous public debate over the last 130 years. New York University Press' edition makes it possible for the first time to review Darwin's public literary output as a whole, plus his scientific journal articles, his private notebooks, and his correspondence.

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