Scale invariance [electronic resource] : from phase transitions to turbulence / Annick Lesne, Michel Laguës.

During a century, from the Van der Waals mean field description (1874) of gases to the introduction of renormalization group (RG techniques 1970), thermodynamics and statistical physics were just unable to account for the incredible universality which was observed in numerous critical phenomena. The...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Lesne, Annick
Other Authors:	Laguës, Michel
Other title:	Invariances d'échelle. English.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English French
Published:	Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, ©2012.
Subjects:	Scaling laws (Statistical physics)