Bücher der Reihe Lecture Notes in Physics

This collection of papers presents a rather complete review of current knowledge of hot spots in some strong extragalactic radio sources. Recent computational techniques which allow modelling and simulations of hot spots and jet behaviour are presented in the third part.

This monograph gives a detailed introductory exposition of research results for various models, mostly two-dimensional, of directed walks, interfaces, wetting, surface adsorption (of polymers), stacks, compact clusters (lattice animals), etc.

Within the Schroedinger picture in this volume are collected the various theoretical and mathematical treatments of scattering together with a host of reviews of its applications to atomic and nuclear physics, to surface physics and chemistry, for example trapping of atoms on surfaces, and to amorphous condensed systems.

This volume gives a comprehensible survey of BL Lac objects: contributors summarize observations on these interesting astrophysical objects and present theoretical models to explain them.

The results are then deepened by giving the analytic tools, such as the Hardy class function and Hilbert and Mellin transforms, needed in applications to physical problems. Applications are given to physical theories of such phenomena as decaying states and resonances.

This monograph presents in detail the reduction method for studying the unification of fundamental actions. The book presents the basic ideas and the calculations in detail and should be of interest to researchers and graduate students in mathematical physics.

Reports on the distribution, properties and evolution of groups, clusters and superclusters of galaxies, as well as theoretical attempts to explain these findings using such ideas as biased galaxy formation and cold dark matter, are presented here for researchers and students of astronomy and astrophysics.

This is a very lucid introduction to spectral methods emphasizing the mathematical aspects of the theory rather than the many applications in numerical analysis and the engineering sciences. The first part is a fairly complete introduction to Fourier series while the second emphasizes polynomial expansion methods like Chebyshev's.

Schatzman, to whom this volume is dedicated, is followed by three sections: observational facts (surface abundances, stellar rotation, loss of mass and angular momentum, etc.), physical knowledge (mass transport and mixing by waves, turbulent transport, fast dynamo action, etc.), and the interpretation of observations.

An international group of outstanding scientists presents a balanced discussion of various controversies in current turbulence theory. This analysis evaluates future developments of theories presently used for understanding and modelling turbulent flows.

To get a reasonably realistic picture of the structure and evolution of stars one needs to know accurately the abundances of chemical elements and their isotopes in the stellar atmosphere and in the galactic environment of the stars.

In gauge theories, quantization can only be performed in certain fixed gauges, but physical gauges often lead to mathematical complications in the theory. In this volume recent results in noncovariant gauge fixing (including supersymmetry) and renormalizability are thoroughly discussed.

The topics treated in this volume are intermediate and high-energy nuclear physics with real and virtual photons and the interplay between nuclear and particle physics. The second part is devoted to physics currently under study at intermediate-energy real-photon facilities with some emphasis on the Compton effect and its relation to quark models.

This monograph teaches advanced undergraduate students and practitioners how to use folded diagrams to calculate properties of complex particle systems such as atomic nuclei, atoms and molecules in terms of interactions among their constituents.

Proceedings of the Next Free-Lagrange Conference Held at Jackson Lake Lodge, Moran, WY, USA, 3-7 June 1990

Particular emphasis is placed on observations that are relevant to the question of large-scale magnetic activity, and also on the theoretical (dynamo) models for such activity.

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Bio- astronomy Held at Val Cenis, Savoie, France, 18-23 June 1990

The articles in this book deal with energetic hadronprocesses near astrophysical compact objects, includingcompact binary systems and active galactic nuclei.

The book reviews the knowledge obtained from ground-basedand space-borne solar flare research thus at the same timepreparing for the forthcoming mission of the satellite SolarA which will be launched in 1991.

In this volume the author gives a detailed presentation of his theory of multiphase mixtures with structure. Based on the concept of averaging the field equations, conservation and balance equations are developed. The final chapters are devoted to constitutive theory and constitutive equations.

In this comprehensive text a systematic numerical and analytical treatment of the procedures for reducing complicated systems to a simplified reaction mechanism is presented.

The pedagogically presented lectures deal with viscoelastic behaviour of fluids, the compatibility of rheological theories with nonequilibrium thermodynamics, fluids under shear, and polymer behaviour in solution and in biological systems.

The contributions in this volume discuss the magneticstructures in the outer atmospheres of active late-typestars, and in particular the various methods available forimaging surface features on these objects.

These workshop proceedings aim to provide a broad overview of recent developments in the study of hot stars, both from the observational and the theoretical point of view.

Proceedings of the 81 WE-Heraeus-Seminar Held at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, 2-6 September 1991

Until now the important concept of quantum chaos hasremained somewhat ill defined. The effects of disorder from dynamics andtheir relation to stochastic systems, quantum coherenceeffects in mesoscopic systems, and the relevant theoreticalapproaches are fruitfully combined in this volume.

The lectures of this international school were designed topresent overviewsof the basic concepts, current researchand research developments of semiconductor quantum devicesnot only to young scientists, but also to graduate andpostgraduate students.

Indispensable for the building of cosmological models areprecise observational data. Second, the authors presenttheoretical models which best fit the given observationaldata.