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DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES - XIAOLEI ZHANG...

This research monograph presents a new dynamical framework for the study of secular
morphological evolution of galaxies along the Hubble sequence. Classical approaches based on
Boltzmann's kinetic equation  as well as on its moment-equation descendants the Euler and
Navier-Stokes fluid equations  are inadequate for treating the maintenance and long-term
evolution of systems containing self-organized structures such as galactic density-wave modes.
A global and synthetic approach  incorporating correlated fluctuations of the constituent
particles during a nonequilibrium phase transition  is adopted to supplement the continuum
treatment. The cutting-edge research combining analytical  N-body simulational  and
observational aspects  as well as the fundamental-physics connections it provides  make this
work a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students in astronomy  astrophysics 
cosmology  many-body physics  complexity theory  and other related fields. ContentsDynamical
Drivers of Galaxy EvolutionN-Body Simulations of Galaxy EvolutionAstrophysical Implications of
the Dynamical TheoryPutting It All TogetherConcluding RemarksAppendix: Relation to Kinetics and
Fluid Mechanics

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