The presence of a gravitational field leads to both practical and fundamental limits of the
resolution in critical phenomena experiments in fluids near the gas-liquid critical point. We …

We review the history of experimental work on Rayleigh–Bénard convection in gases, and
then describe a modern apparatus that has been used in our experiments on gas …

The search for the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collision experiments requires dynamical
simulations of the bulk evolution of QCD matter as well as of fluctuations. We consider two …

Phase transition dynamics is centrally important to condensed matter physics. This 2002
book treats a wide variety of topics systematically by constructing time-dependent Ginzburg …

In this article we deal with the turbulent regimes of Rayleigh–Bénard convection, namely the
2/7 regime and beyond. An experiment with He at low temperature allows us to explore a …

We show how the extreme compressibility of a pure fluid near its critical point significantly
affects its bulk dynamic response to temperature changes through adiabatic processes. We …

Non-Oberbeck–Boussinesq (NOB) effects on the Nusselt number mainly originates from the
temperature dependence of the viscosity, the NOB correction of the Nusselt number …

Fireballs created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at different beam energies have been
argued to follow different trajectories in the QCD phase diagram in which the QCD critical …

A new feature of macroscopic thermal relaxation processes is investigated in pure fluids
near the gas-liquid critical point. If the total volume of the fluid is fixed, an adiabatic heating …

We derive dynamic equations of the mass, energy, and momentum densities to describe
dynamics of highly compressible fluids near the gas-liquid critical point. In particular, the …