Recent Developments in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Fluids and Related Topics

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• Lectures on the statistical thermodynamics of nonequilibrium steady states.
• Non-equilibrium fluctuations: Noise and correlation functions in some systems.
• Nonlinear transport and mode coupling in fluids under shear.
• Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical physics of the liquid-vapour interface.
• Hydrodynamic interactions and transport-properties of suspensions.
• Functional poisson brackets for nonlinear fluid mechanics equations.
• Lorentz models revisited what one can learn from ants in a labyrinth.
• Noise induced transitions.
• An introduction to nonequilibrium problems involving electromagnetic radiation.
• Scalar fluctuations from extended non-equilibrium thermodynamic states.
• Extended thermodynamics and diffusion in binary mixtures.
• Nonequilibrium plasma in highly photo-excited semiconductors.
• Relaxation times in a bistable system: Theory and experiment.
• Some dynamical aspects of the Freedericksz transition.
• Local equilibrium approximation in Fokker-Planck models.
• Brownian motion in concentrated suspensions.
• Mutual diffusion in a binary mixture.
• Comments on shock wave structure.
• Generalized extended nonequilibrium thermodynamics of diffusion in paramagnetics.
• Casuality problem in the relativistic kinetic theory.
• Solution of the model Boltzmann-Lorentz equations for particles with spin.
• A microscopic derivation of the generalized Onsager's theory.
• Correlations in a laser with fluctuating pump parameter.
• Integro-differential equation for the joint probability density of non-Markovian process. Properties of the correlation for short times.
• Exact solutions for the stochastic Malthus-Verhulst model.
• Density, electric field and voltage fluctuations around nonequilibrium steady states near the Gunn instability.
• On energy exchange between multidimensional fluctuating systems in equilibrium.
• Some recent advances in black hole thermodynamics.