[sbaffini]

Hello everyone,

can you suggest a modern (i.e., up to date in both coverage and formalism), textbook like (i.e., complete but for dummies), reference on statistical mechanics that, starting from the Hamiltonian mechanics approach works its way down to the Liouville equations, the BBGKY hierarchy, and eventually any other approximation, like the Boltzmann equation and the Chapman-Enskog theory, that allows, in the end, to obtain the Navier-stokes equations, possibly for both gases and liquids?

In the years, I never really needed any formal approach to this, and I was fine with the book by Gombosi (Gaskinetic Theory) and what I could get from fluid mechanics (e.g., Batchelor) or thermodynamics (e.g., Callen) books, but never really had the stomach to go trough the Chapman-Cowling book or the Landau volumes 5 and 10 (to my great disappointment, considering that I bought them both).

I guess I'm after a book on the same complexity level as the Gombosi one, but probably wider in scope and perspective, if it exists at all. Of course, any lecture note or similar material would work as well.

Do you have any suggestion?

Thanks