文档介绍：Scale Invariance
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Annick Lesne Michel Lagues¨
Scale Invariance
From Phase Transitions to Turbulence
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Dr. Annick Lesne Michel Lagues¨
UniversiteParisVI´ ESPCI
Labo. Physique Theorique´ de la rue Vauquelin 10
Matiere` Condensee´ (LPTMC) 75231 Paris
place Jussieu 4 France
75252 Paris Cedex 05 michel1lagues@
France
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Translated by Rhoda J. Hawkins, PhD.
The original, French edition was published under the title ‘Invariances d’echelle:´
Des changements d’etats´ alaturbulence’`
c 2003, 2008 Editions Belin, France
ISBN 978-3-642-15122-4 e-ISBN 978-3-642-15123-1
DOI -3-642-15123-1
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Foreword
The opalescence of a fluid near its critical point has been a matter of curiosity for
more than 100 years. However, anisation of a fluid as it wavers between a
liquid and a vapour was only understood 40 years ago – thanks to a profound insight
by Leo Kadanoff in what wa