Hydrodynamic Fluctuations in Fluids and Fluid Mixtures

This book deals with density, temperature, velocity and concentration fluctuations in fluids and fluid mixtures. The book first reviews thermal fluctuations in equilibrium fluids on the basis of fluctuating hydrodynamics. It then shows how the method of fluctuating hydrodynamics can be extended to deal with hydrodynamic fluctuations. In contrast to equilibrium fluids, there is a short term, no fluctuations in nonequilibrium fluids are always long-ranged encompassing the entire system. The book provides the first comprehensive treatment of fluids and fluids that are still in a macroscopically quiescent state. By incorporating the conditions of the fluctuating hydrodynamics affects the fluctuations close to the onset of convection. Experimental techniques of light scattering and shadowgraphy for measuring. Nonequilibrium fluctuations are elucidated and the experimental.

· Systematic exposition of fluctuating hydrodynamics and its applications
· First book on nonequilibrium fluctuations in fluids
· Fluctuating Boussinesq equations and nonequilibrium fluids
· Fluid layers and onset of convection
· Rayleigh scattering and Brillouin scattering in fluids
· Shadowgraph technique for measuring fluctuations
· Fluctuations near hydrodynamic instabilities

1. Introduction
2. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
3. Fluctuations in Fluids in Thermodynamic Equilibrium
4. Thermal Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in One-Component Fluids
5. Thermal Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Fluid Mixtures
6. Finite-Size Effects in Hydrodynamic Fluctuations
7. Thermal Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in One-Component-Fluid Layers
8. Thermal Fluctuations Close to the Rayleigh-Bénard Instability
9. Thermal Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Binary-Fluid Layers
10. Experiments on Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in the Rayleigh-Bénard Problem
11. Other Nonequilibrium Fluctuations
12. Epilogue
Bibliography
List of Symbols and Corresponding SI Units
List of Abbreviations
Subject Index