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Thermodynamics
Edited by Mizutani Tadashi, ISBN 978-953-307-544-0, Hard cover, 440 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: January 14, 2011 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, in subject Chemical Engineering
DOI: 10.5772/558
Progress of thermodynamics has been stimulated by the findings of a variety of fields of science and technology. The principles of thermodynamics are so general that the application is widespread to such fields as solid state physics, chemistry, biology, astronomical science, materials science, and chemical engineering. The contents of this book should be of help to many scientists and engineers.
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Book contents
- Chapter 1New Microscopic Connections of Thermodynamics
- Chapter 2Rigorous and General Definition of Thermodynamic Entropy
- Chapter 3Heat Flow, Work Energy, Chemical Reactions, and Thermodynamics: a Dynamical Systems Perspective
- Chapter 4Modern Stochastic Thermodynamics
- Chapter 5On the Two Main Laws of Thermodynamics
- Chapter 6Non-Extensive Thermodynamics of Algorithmic Processing - the Case of Insertion Sort Algorithm
- Chapter 7Lorentzian Wormholes Thermodynamics
- Chapter 8Four Exactly Solvable Examples in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Small Systems
- Chapter 9Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics for Living Systems: Brownian Particle Description
- Chapter 10Mesoscopic Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics: Application to Radiative Heat Exchange in Nanostructures
- Chapter 11Extension of Classical Thermodynamics to Nonequilibrium Polarization
- Chapter 12Hydrodynamical Models of Superfluid Turbulence
- Chapter 13Thermodynamics of Thermoelectricity
- Chapter 14Application of the Continuum-Lattice Thermodynamics
- Chapter 15Phonon Participation in Thermodynamics and Superconductive Properties of Thin Ceramic Films
- Chapter 16Insight Into Adsorption Thermodynamics
- Chapter 17Ion Exchanger as Gibbs Canonical Assembly
- Chapter 18Microemulsions: Thermodynamic and Dynamic Properties
- Chapter 19The Atmosphere and Internal Structure of Saturns's Moon Titan, a Thermodynamic Study
- Chapter 20Interoperability between Modelling Tools (MoT) with Thermodynamic Property Prediction Packages (Simulis® Thermodynamics) and Process Simulators (ProSimPlus) via CAPE-OPEN Standards
