Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics in Multiphase Flows

• Main Author: Mauri, Roberto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Soft and Biological Matter,
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Polymers.; Thermodynamics.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Fluid mechanics.; Physical Chemistry.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Polymer Sciences.

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is a general framework that allows the macroscopic description of irreversible processes. This book introduces non-equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to the rheology of multiphase flows. The subject is relevant to graduate students in chemical and mechanic...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Microscopic reversibility
• The Langevin equation
• The Fokker-Planck equation
• Stochastic differential calculus
• The path integral
• Balance equations
• The constitutive relations
• Multiphase Flows
• Effective constitutive relations
• Multiple scale analysis.