Bücher der Reihe Lecture Notes in Physics

Atomic cluster physics has evolved into a research field oftruly interdisciplinary character. The volume contains theProceedings of a WE-Heraeus workshop on "Nuclear PhysicsConcepts inAtomic Cluster Physics" held in Bad Honnef(Germany), November 26-29, 1991.

The nine review articles contained here introduce thetechniques required touse lattice gas methods for numericalsimulations of complex flows. Furthermore, lattice Boltzmannmodels are studied together with classical numericaltechniques.

It reports on theoretical researchand observational data on active galactic nuclei: The enigmaof the nuclei of galaxies with their central "monster"driving the vast range of activity observed in quasars,radio galaxies, Seyferts, starburst galaxies and even ourown Galaxy are explored in this volume.

The topics includemasers in star-forming, circumstellar and extragalacticenvironments, solar system masers, newly discovered masingtransitions, variability, proper-motion studies, and theory.

This is a comprehensive overview of the information yieldedby electroweak probes about the nuclear- andsubnuclear-scale structure of matter. others cover theproperties of partons, the behaviour of the constituents ofthe hadron, muon and neutrino scattering etc.

There have been considerable advances in recent times in understanding many common material processes that are of practical importance, such as nonlinear response, fracture, breakdown, earthquakes, packing, and granular flow, that are of immense practical importance.

The articles in this book reflect the omnipresence of diffusion processes in the natural sciences. They describe experimental results as well as theoretical models and computer simulations, and address a wide readership including graduate students. The problems treated stem from physics, astronomy, physical chemistry, biology, and medicine.

The rapid growth in our understanding of how stars form owes a lot to recent developments in techniques for carrying out infrared and millimeter-wave astronomy. Topics include molecular clouds, T Tauri stars, OB stars, observation methods in infrared and mm astronomy, as well as high resolution techniques.

A chapter on the most recent technical advances in the field illustrates the intimate connection and interplay between scientific advancement and technological capability.

The articles in this volume treat various problems in combustion science that are of importance in applications to technology and to environmental sciences. The authors treat turbulence in premixed and non-premixed flames as well as pressure interactions and wave phenomena.

Presented here for the first time are up-to-date reviews of a new and rapidly developing field of investigation: magnetic solids with polarized photons. The potential of these methods to reveal new insights in the magnetic aspects of the electronic structure and the microscopic origin of magnetic properties is discussed.

This book describes the state of the art in the field of modeling and solving numerically inverse problems of wave propagation and diffraction. Topics treated are the obstacle problem, scattering by classical media, and scattering by distributed media.

This volume contains important contributions to various topics of modern theoretical physics: supermembranes, supersymmetry, and quantum field theory and quantum groups. The book is dedicated to the late D. Volkov and also contains a selection of his pioneering work in spin and statistics, supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstrings.

This book is a collection of papers in honour of Victor I. Ogievetsky. It contains reviews on supersymmetry and supergravity, dualities, integrable systems, W (super)algebras and quantum symmetries. The reader will also find reprints of some of Ogievetsky's pioneering work on supersymmetry.

Thus, this volume deepens our understanding of anomalies, algebraic renormalization theory, axiomatic field theory and of much more while illuminating the past and present state of affairs and pointing to interesting problems for future research.

These proceedings are devoted to the most recent research in computational fluid mechanics and include a thorough analysis of the state of the art in parallel computing and the development of algorithms. Seven invited lectures survey the results of the recent past and point out interesting new directions of research.

The subject of the book, the ubiquitous circumstellar disks around very young stars and the corresponding jets of outflowing matter, has recently become one of the hottest areas in astrophysics.

These proceedings give a rather complete overview of the most recent research in the areas of fundamental processes and phase transitions, cloud droplet and ice nucleation in the atmosphere, and aerosol formation and aerosol characteristics in the atmosphere.

This volume covers the main topics in heavy flavour physics in a comprehensive yet accessible way. The material is presented as a combination of extensive introductory lectures and more typical contributions. This book will benefit postgraduate students and reseachers alike.

Among resummation techniques for perturbative QCD in the context of collider and flavor physics, soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) has emerged as both a powerful and versatile tool, having been applied to a large variety of processes, from B-meson decays to jet production at the LHC.

Neutrino oscillation (N.O.) is the only firm evidence of the physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and is one of the hottest topics in elementary particle physics today.

Taking both a theoretical and observational perspective, this book is an introduction to recent developments in the field of celestial mechanics.

Taking both a theoretical and observational perspective, this book is an introduction to recent developments in the field of celestial mechanics.