Meet the editor

Dr. Albert S. Kim is currently a full professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has been teaching in the department from 2001, after he earned his MS (1997) and PhD (2000) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Kim's scientific accomplishments include the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (CAREER)

Award in 2005, the University of Hawaii Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research in 2006, and the University of Hawaii Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching in 2017. Professor Kim has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers and six book chapters, and edited two open access books.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Gerd Röpke*

*by William E. Uspal*

*by Albert S. Kim*

**Section 2**

Crystal

Nonequilibrium Statistical Operator

**Preface III**

Irreversible Statistical Mechanics **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 49**

**Chapter 3 77**

Non-Equilibrium Simulations **101**

**Chapter 4 103**

**Chapter 5 123**

**Chapter 6 145** Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Hydrodynamic Modes of a Nematic Liquid

**Chapter 7 169**

Using the Principles of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics for the Analysis

Variational Principle for Nonequilibrium Steady States Tested by Molecular

of Phase Transformations in Iron-Carbon Alloys

Dynamics Simulation of Model Liquid Crystal Systems *by Sten Sarman, Yonglei Wang and Aatto Laaksonen*

*by Jorge Fernando Camacho and Rosalío Fernando Rodríguez*

Non-Newtonian Dynamics with Heat Transport in Complex Systems

*by Bobyr Sergiy Volodimyrovych*

*by Aamir Shahzad and Fang Yang*

The Boundary Element Method for Fluctuating Active Colloids

Fundamentals of Irreversible Thermodynamics for Coupled Transport
