Phase transitions take place in many different branches of physics: from soft and hard condensed matter to cosmology and high-energy physics. This course presents the fundamental ideas, concepts and methods that underpin the modern theory of phase transitions.
The first aim of these lectures will be to give a brief overview of the physical and dynamical mechanisms which determine Earth’s climate. We will start with the atmospheric radiative transfer and the energy fluxes provided by the fluid dynamics of the atmosphere and the oceans.
La plupart des théories physiques sont exprimées sous forme d’équations à dérivées partielles, que ce soit en mécanique quantique, mécanique des solides ou des fluides, ou encore en physique des plasmas ou en astrophysique.
