Thermodynamics and heat

Based on the author's own work and results obtained by renowned cosmologists, this short book provides a concise introduction to the relatively new research field of cosmological thermodynamics.

This textbook covers the fundamentals of physical chemistry, explaining the concepts in an accessible way and guiding the readers in a step-by-step manner.

This book, now in its third edition, explores how human populations grow, based on their creative abilities.

This book explains theoretical and technological aspects of amorphous drug formulations.

This accessible book presents unconventional technologies in heat exchanger design that have the capacity to provide solutions to major concerns within the process and power-generating industries.

This book presents the basic elements of theoretical physics in a highly accessible, captivating way for university students in the third year of a degree in physics.

The second edition of this book includes the most up-to-date details on the advantages of Nuclear Air-Brayton Power Plant Cycles for advanced reactors.

This is the first book dedicated to solar gas turbines, providing fundamental knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in the field.

This book provides state-of-the-art computational approaches for accelerating materials discovery, synthesis, and processing using thermodynamics and kinetics.

This book introduces and discusses both the fundamental aspects and the measurability of applications of time-symmetric kinetic quantities, outlining the features that constitute the non-dissipative branch of non-equilibrium physics.

This monograph presents a comprehensive treatment of analytical solutions to problems in the area of non-equilibrium evaporation and condensation processes.

This updated new edition provides an introduction to the field of thermoacoustics.

This textbook offers an introduction to multiple, interdependent transport phenomena as they occur in various fields of physics and technology like transport of momentum, heat, and matter.

This book focuses on the interpretation of ergodic optimal problems as questions of variational dynamics, employing a comparable approach to that of the Aubry-Mather theory for Lagrangian systems.

The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science.

This thesis explores the connection between gravity and thermodynamics and provides a unification scheme that opens up new directions of exploration.

This thesis reveals how the feedback trap technique, developed to trap small objects for biophysical measurement, could be adapted for the quantitative study of the thermodynamic properties of small systems.

This book addresses the concept and applications of Finite Time Thermodynamics to various thermal energy conversion systems including heat engines, heat pumps, and refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.

This biography is a short yet comprehensive overview of the life of Meghnad Saha, the mastermind behind the frequently used Saha equations and a strong contributor to the foundation of science in India.

This thesis represents the first systematic description of the two-phase flow problem.

This Brief focuses on the dispersion of high-porosity particles, their entrainment into the vapor-laden stream, and the condensation of vapor onto the particles.

This update to a classic reference text provides practising engineers and scientists with accurate thermophysical property data for cryogenic fluids.

This Brief presents an up to date summary of details of the flow boiling heat transfer, pressure drop and instability characteristics; two phase flow patterns of expanding microchannels.

This book is the first major work covering applications in thermal engineering and offering a comprehensive introduction to optimal control theory, which has applications in mechanical engineering, particularly aircraft and missile trajectory optimization.

This book focuses on Creep in Ceramics.

This Brief describes and analyzes flow and heat transport over a liquid-saturated porous bed.

A text- and exercise book for physical chemistry students!

This updated edition of a widely admired text provides a user-friendly introduction to the field that requires only routine mathematics.

This text provides a teachable and readable approach to transport phenomena (momentum, heat, and mass transport) by providing numerous examples and applications, which are particularly important to metallurgical, ceramic, and materials engineers.

This concise textbook offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to thermodynamics, one of the core components of undergraduate physics courses.

This authoritative but highly accessible book presents the reader with a powerful framework for understanding the critical role of the energy return on investment (EROI) in the survival and well-being of individuals, ecosystems, businesses, economies and nations.

This book provides deep insight into the physical quantity known as chemical activity.

This book covers the parameterization of entry capsules, including Apollo capsules and planetary probes, and winged entry vehicles such as the Space Shuttle and lifting bodies.

Features twenty-five chapter contributions from an international array of distinguished academics based in Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, and the USA.

This book discusses the current direction of the research approach to extreme biomimetics through biological materials-inspired chemistry and its applications in modern technology and medicine.

This book presents the fundamentals of irreversible thermodynamics for nonlinear transport processes in gases and liquids, as well as for generalized hydrodynamics extending the classical hydrodynamics of Navier, Stokes, Fourier, and Fick.

This book presents the fundamentals of irreversible thermodynamics for nonlinear transport processes in gases and liquids, as well as for generalized hydrodynamics extending the classical hydrodynamics of Navier, Stokes, Fourier, and Fick.

This is the physical chemistry textbook for students with an affinity for computers!

Scheck's textbook starts with a concise introduction to classical thermodynamics, including geometrical aspects.

This classic textbook on experimental physics, written by Robert W.

This book explores diffusion in L12 and B2 structures of Ni3Al, Ni3Ge, Ni3Ga and NiAl, NiGe and NiGa and discusses Fe- and Co-based alloys in detail.

This book provides detailed calculated values for the thermal radiative and thermodynamic functions of black-body radiation in finite spectral ranges.

This textbook aims to briefly outline the main directions in which thegeometrization of thermodynamics has been developed in the last decades.

This book provides a detailed analysis of absorption refrigeration systems, covering single effect to multi-effect systems and their applications.

In this book fluid mechanics and thermodynamics (F&T) are approached as interwoven, not disjoint fields.

This book presents a history of shock compression science, including development of experimental, material modeling, and hydrodynamics code technologies over the past six decades at Sandia National Laboratories.

This book presents thermal field theory techniques, which can be applied in both cosmology and the theoretical description of the QCD plasma generated in heavy-ion collision experiments.

This second volume covers the mechanics of fluids, the principles of thermodynamics and their applications (without reference to the microscopic structure of systems), and the microscopic interpretation of thermodynamics.

This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "e;progress.

This Brief addresses the phenomena of heat transfer enhancement.