Fractals in Physics

by L. Pietronero, E. Tosatti

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Fractals in Physics

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444598417
Publisher:	North Holland
Publication date:	12/02/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	489
File size:	10 MB

Table of Contents

(summary of): Preface. I. General properties of fractals. II. Analysis of fractal properties of materials. III. Polymer statistics and self-avoiding-walks. IV. Branched polymers, gelation and percolation. V. (A) Irreversible growth models: Laplacian fractals, dielectric breakdown, fracture propagation and viscous fingers in liquids. V. (B) Irreversible growth models: diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth, Eden model and cluster-cluster aggregation. VI. Kinetics of clustering. VII. Dynamical properties of fractal structures. VIII. Hierarchical and fractal features of disordered systems. IX. Chaos, turbulence and related topics.