Table of Contents

Prologue: The intrinsic Fokker-Planck equation.- Kinetics of metastable states.- Instability, fluctuations and critical slowing down.- Spinodal decomposition.- Bifurcations and symmetry - Breaking in Far from equilibrium systems.- Some topics in nonequilibrium critical phenomena.- Onset of convection and turbulence in a cylindrical container.- The onset of turbulence: Convection, surface waves, and oscillators.- Statistical dynamics of turbulence.- Problems in nonlinear transport theory.- Non-linear transport theory.- On non-linear fluctuations from statistical mechanics.- Kinetic theory of dense gases not in equilibrium.- Information theory and ecological diversity.- Time evolution in isolated non-equilibrium systems: The Pauli master equation revisited.- Non-linear Fokker Planck equations: Characteristics of eigenfunctions.- Entropy, action and the onsager-machlup function.- "Non-classical" threshold behaviour at far from equilibrium instabilities.- Simulation study of the critical behaviour of a chemical model system.- Order and turbulence in one-dimension.- Extended irreversible thermodynamics: Evolution and fluctuations of dissipative fluxes.- Thermodynamic modeling of systems far from equilibrium.- Aspects of nucleation in tricritical systems.- Adiabatic Hamiltonian deformation, linear response theory, and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics.- Different routes to turbulence in high Prandtl number convection and in rectangular cells: Influence of the aspect ratio and of the structure.- Experiments on phase transitions due to the external fluctuation.- Hopping models for ultrasonic absorption in dilute polymer solutions.- Stochastic dynamic approach to the decay of an unstable state.