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Subsections
- 1.
- It is simple!!!
- 2.
- It is ``realistic enough'' (if you are not a Chem Eng)
- 3.
- Easy to simulate
- 4.
- It is well-studied--you can compare with other works
- 1.
- Exact solutions: one-dimensional (easy!), two-dimensional in
zero field (Onsager solution, solutions for complex geometries)
- 2.
- High-temperature an low-temperature expansions
- 3.
- Mean-field theories
- 4.
- Computer simulations
© 1997
Boris Veytsman
and Michael Kotelyanskii
Mon Oct 13 22:07:20 EDT 1997