After a brief general overview of Monte Carlo computer simulations in statistical physics, special emphasis is placed on applications to phase transitions and critical phenomena. Here, standard simulations employing local update algorithms are severely hampered by the problem of critical slowing...

A new application of the percolation theory for describing the coupled heat and mass transport phenomena through porous media is given. The space and time dependence of the temperature and moisture level functions are calculated by taking into account the discrete, sudden changes of the...