Random Walks and Random Environments: Volume 1: Random Walks (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198537885)

This is the first of two volumes devoted to probability theory in physics, physical chemistry, and engineering, providing an introduction to the problem of the random walk and its applications. In its simplest form, the random walk describes the motion of an idealized drunkard and is a discreet analogy of the diffusion process. A thorough account is given of the theory of random walks on discreet spaces (lattices or networks) and in continuous spaces, including those processed with random waiting time between steps. Applications discussed include dielectric relaxation, charge transport in the xerographic process, turbulent dispersion, diffusion through a medium with traps, laser speckle and the conformations of polymers in dilute solution. Prior knowledge of probability theory would be helpful, but not assumed. An extensive bibliography concludes the book.

Author: Barry D. Hughes
ISBN-10: 0198537883
ISBN-13: 9780198537885
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 05/18/1995
Pages: 652
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.38w x 1.78d