This comprehensive systematic overview covers the static and dynamic critical phenomena of real, non-ideal fluids in the nearest vicinity of the critical point, offers new approaches and presents research results on the highest level. Including both theoretical and experimental researches, it also deals with the critical opalescence as phenomenon with continuously growing scattering multiplicity.

From the Contents:

* Statics of Critical Phenomena in the Nearest Vicinity of the Critical Point: Experimental Manifestation
* Critical Indices and Amplitudes
* Thermodynamics of the Metastable State
* Foundations of Critical Dynamics
* Critical Opalescence: Modelling
* Critical Opalescence: Theory and Experiment
* Thermal Conductivity in the Vicinity of the Critical Point
* Appendices: Some Applications of the Photon Correlation Technique