TY - BOOK

T1 - Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society

AU - Bunde, Armin

AU - Caro, Jürgen

AU - Chmelik, Christian

AU - Kärger, Jörg

AU - Vogl, Gero

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - What do the movements of molecules and the migration of humans have in common? How does the functionality of our brain tissue resemble the flow of traffic in New York City? How can understanding the spread of ideas, rumors, and languages help us tackle the spread a pandemic? This book provides an illuminating look into these seemingly disparate topics by exploring and expertly communicating the fundamental laws that govern the spreading and diffusion of objects. A collection of leading scientists in disciplines as diverse as epidemiology, linguistics, mathematics, and physics discuss various spreading phenomena relevant to their own fields, revealing astonishing similarities and correlations between the objects of study—be they people, particles, or pandemics. This updated and expanded second edition of an award-winning book introduces timely coverage of a subject with the greatest societal impact in recent memory—the global fight against COVID-19. Winner of the 2019 Literature Prize of the German Chemical Industry Fund and brainchild of the international and long-running Diffusion Fundamentals conference series, this book targets an interdisciplinary readership, featuring an introductory chapter that sets the stage for the topics discussed throughout. Each chapter provides ample opportunity to whet the appetite of those readers seeking a more in-depth treatment, making the book also useful as supplementary reading in appropriate courses dealing with complex systems, mass transfer, and network theory.

AB - What do the movements of molecules and the migration of humans have in common? How does the functionality of our brain tissue resemble the flow of traffic in New York City? How can understanding the spread of ideas, rumors, and languages help us tackle the spread a pandemic? This book provides an illuminating look into these seemingly disparate topics by exploring and expertly communicating the fundamental laws that govern the spreading and diffusion of objects. A collection of leading scientists in disciplines as diverse as epidemiology, linguistics, mathematics, and physics discuss various spreading phenomena relevant to their own fields, revealing astonishing similarities and correlations between the objects of study—be they people, particles, or pandemics. This updated and expanded second edition of an award-winning book introduces timely coverage of a subject with the greatest societal impact in recent memory—the global fight against COVID-19. Winner of the 2019 Literature Prize of the German Chemical Industry Fund and brainchild of the international and long-running Diffusion Fundamentals conference series, this book targets an interdisciplinary readership, featuring an introductory chapter that sets the stage for the topics discussed throughout. Each chapter provides ample opportunity to whet the appetite of those readers seeking a more in-depth treatment, making the book also useful as supplementary reading in appropriate courses dealing with complex systems, mass transfer, and network theory.

KW - Diffusing Biological Processes

KW - Diffusion in Atmospheric Physics

KW - Diffusion in Nanoporous Materials

KW - Diffusion Processes in Physics

KW - Diffusive Transport

KW - Epidemics Models

KW - Expansion of Languages

KW - History of Human Migration

KW - Hot Brownian Motion

KW - Nature-Inspired Transport Optimization

KW - Random Walk

KW - Spreading of Coronavirus

KW - Spreading of Pandemics

KW - Transport in Porous Media

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85172087152&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-05946-9

DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-05946-9

M3 - Monograph

AN - SCOPUS:85172087152

SN - 9783031059452

SN - 9783031059483

BT - Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society

PB - Springer International Publishing AG

ER -