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3 - Elements of Stochastic Mechanics of Transport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Nikolai Kocherginsky
Nikolai Kocherginsky
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Summary

Chapter 3 summarizes major equations of statistical and stochastic mechanics, important for description of molecular transport.

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stochastic mechanicsBrownian motionEinsteinFokker–PlanckSmoluchowski equationsmobilityfriction
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Physicochemical Mechanics
With Applications in Physics, Chemistry, Membranology and Biology
 , pp. 36 - 56
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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