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Modern thermodynamics: from heat engines to dissipative structures.

Author(s) : KONDEPUDI D. K., PRIGOGINE I.

Type of monograph: Book

Summary

This book is intended to present an introductory text which covers both the traditional aspects of thermodynamics as well as its more recent developments. Extract of contents: historical roots: from heat engines to cosmology (basic concepts; first law of thermodynamics; second law of thermodynamics and the arrow of time; entropy in the realm of chemical reactions); equilibrium thermodynamics (basic thermodynamics of gases, liquids and solids; phase change; solutions; chemical transformations; fields and internal degrees of freedom; thermodynamics of radiation); fluctuations and stability (Gibbs stability theory; critical phenomena and configurational heat capacity; stability and fluctuations based on entropy production); linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics (foundations; the linear regime; nonequilibrium stationary states and their stability: linear regime); order through fluctuations (nonlinear thermodynamics; dissipative structures).

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  • Original title: Modern thermodynamics: from heat engines to dissipative structures.
  • Record ID : 1999-2629
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: General information
  • Publication: John Wiley & Sons - United kingdom/United kingdom
  • Publication date: 1998
  • ISBN: 0471973939
  • Source: Source: 508 p. (19 x 24); fig.; phot.; tabl.; append.; index; GBP 24.95.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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