Statistical Physics: Transport Theory

Properties und Phenomena

• thermodynamic properties
  • internal energy, pressure, shear modulus, ...
• transport coefficients
  • viscosity, thermal conductivity, diffusion coefficients, ...
• rheology: flow properties
  • non-Newtonian viscosity, normal pressure differences
  • plastic flow behaviors
• solid-solid friction properties
• diffusion controlled chemical reaction rates
• coupling of various transport processes
• relaxation processes
  • hydrodynamic relaxation and relaxation of non-conserved quantities e.g. stress relaxation
• dynamics of molecular orientation
• alignment phenomena
  • e.g. flow alignment
• optical properties
  • e.g. line broadening, induced birefringence
• dielectric and ferro-electrical properties
• non-equilibrium distribution functions
  • velocity distribution, pair correlation function, orientation distribution
• structure und structure formation
  • static and dynamic structure factors
• dynamic processes near phase transitions
  • and the effect of external influences, e.g. gas-liquid, liquid-solid, isotropic-nematic, smectic A-C* phase transitions; unified description of several phases.
• boundary and surface effects
  • e.g. free surfaces, gases and liquids in contact with rigid walls, boundary orientation