Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Front matter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Body -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nonequilibrium thermodynamics -- Local thermodynamic properties -- Equilibrium thermodynamics -- Continuum hypothesis and the assumption of local equilibrium -- Balance laws -- Mass balance -- Pressure tensor -- Momentum balance -- Energy balance -- Additional remarks -- Entropy balance, dissipative fluxes and thermodynamic forces -- Phenomenological relations -- Onsager's reciprocal relations -- Hydrodynamic equations -- Hydrodynamic equations for a one-component fluid -- Hydrodynamic equations for a binary mixture -- Boundary conditions -- Conditions at the interface between two continuous media -- A flat horizontal fluid boundary -- 3 Fluctuations in fluids in thermodynamic equilibrium -- Fluctuating hydrodynamics -- Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for fluids and fluid mixtures -- Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for a one-component fluid -- Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for a binary mixture -- Hydrodynamic fluctuations in a one-component fluid -- Structure factor -- Equal-time correlations -- Equilibrium correlation functions and entropy probability functional -- Extension of fluctuating hydrodynamics to nonequilibrium steady states -- 4 Thermal nonequilibrium fluctuations in one-component fluids -- Boussinesq approximation -- Bulk structure factor in the presence of a stationary temperature gradient -- Nonequilibrium effects on the Brillouin doublet -- Nonequilibrium fluctuations in heat conduction -- 5 Thermal nonequilibrium fluctuations in fluid mixtures -- Linearized fluctuating Boussinesq equations for a binary liquid -- The linear stability problem -- Structure factor in a large-Lewis-number approximation -- Comprehensive structure factor of a nonequilibrium binary mixture.

Nonequilibrium fluctuations in isothermal free-diffusion processes -- 6 Finite-size effects in hydrodynamic fluctuations -- The hydrodynamic operator -- Structure factors -- Hydrodynamic modes and decay rates for two free boundaries -- Hydrodynamic modes and decay rates for two rigid boundaries -- Decay rates for rigid boundaries in the limit of small q -- Decay rates for rigid boundaries in the limit of large q -- The slowest decay rate -- 7 Thermal nonequilibrium fluctuations in one-component-fluid layers -- A fluid confined between two free boundaries -- A fluid confined between two rigid boundaries -- Limiting behavior of the structure factor for rigid boundaries at small and large wave numbers -- A Galerkin approximation for two rigid boundaries -- Correlations in real space -- Contribution of nonequilibrium fluctuations to heat transfer -- 8 Thermal fluctuations close to the Rayleigh-Bénard instability -- Critical slowing down of nonequilibrium fluctuations -- The most-unstable-mode approximation -- The Swift-Hohenberg approximation -- Power of thermal fluctuations -- Wave number of maximum enhancement of fluctuations -- Wave number fluctuations with maximum growth rate -- 9 Thermal nonequilibrium fluctuations in binary-fluid layers -- The hydrodynamic operator for binary Boussinesq -- A Galerkin approximation for rigid and impermeable boundary conditions -- Evaluation of nonequilibrium structure factors -- Structure factor in thermal equilibrium -- Nonequilibrium fluctuations for positive separation ratio -- Temperature fluctuations -- Concentration fluctuations -- Large-Lewis-number approximation for positive separation ratio -- Concluding remarks -- 10 Experiments on nonequilibrium fluctuations in the Rayleigh-Bénard problem -- Experimental techniques -- Small-angle light scattering -- Quantitative shadowgraph analysis.

Dependence of shadowgraph images on collecting times -- Nonequilibrium light-scattering experiments in one-component fluids -- Propagating modes -- Brillouin doublet -- Rayleigh scattering -- Shadowgraph experiments in one-component fluids -- Divergence of critical fluctuations near the onset of convection -- Critical slowing down of fluctuations near the onset of convection -- Light scattering in binary systems -- Nonequilibrium fluctuations in liquid mixtures -- Concentration fluctuations in dilute polymer solutions -- Shadowgraphy in binary mixtures -- 11 Other nonequilibrium fluctuations -- Nonequilibrium fluctuations in isothermal one-component fluids under shear -- Nonequilibrium interface fluctuations -- Nonequilibrium fluctuations in nematic liquid crystals -- Concentration fluctuations in reaction-diffusion problems -- Equilibrium concentration fluctuations in reaction-diffusion -- Nonequilibrium concentration fluctuations in reaction-diffusion -- 12 Epilogue -- Back matter -- Bibliography -- List of symbols and corresponding SI units -- List of abbreviations -- Index.