Fundamentals of Thermodynamics and Applications With Historical Annotations and Many Citations from Avogadro to Zermelo /

• Main Authors: Müller, Ingo (Author), Müller, Wolfgang H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.

The book provides a systematic introduction into the fundamental ideas of thermodynamics at a somewhat advanced level. And it exhibits many applications of the theory in the fields of engineering, physics, chemistry, physical chemistry, and materials science. The universal equations of balance are s...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue on ideal gases and incompressible fluids
• Objectives of thermodynamics and its equations of balance
• Constitutive equations
• Reversible processes and cycles. “p dV thermodynamics” for the calculation of thermodynamic engines
• Entropy
• Entropy as S=k lnW
• Steam engines and refrigerators
• Heat Transfer
• Mixtures, solutions, and alloys
• Chemically reacting mixtures
• Moist air
• Selected problems in thermodynamics
• Thermodynamics of irreversible processes.