Thermodynamics and heat

The large scale structure of the earth is caused by geodynamic processes which are explained using energetic, kinematic and dynamic descriptions.

Functionality, Advancements and Industrial Applications of Heat Pipes introduces heat pipe technologies and highlights a variety of applications for passive thermal control.

Nuclear Waste Management Facilities: Advances, Environmental Impacts, and Future Prospects examines best practices and recent trends in improving nuclear safety and reducing the negative environmental impacts of nuclear waste.

Compact Heat Exchangers: Selection, Design, and Operation, Second Edition, is fully revised to present the most recent and fundamental ideas and industrial concepts in compact heat exchanger technology.

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

Complete coverage of the thermodynamics of radiation matter for solar energy utilizationThis comprehensive guide reviews the fundamentals of the thermodynamics of radiation matter--photon gas.

This book presents a new view of the mechanism of functional expression of ATP-driven motors (proteins or protein complexes).

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems, Fourth Edition emphasizes the unifying role of thermodynamics in analyzing natural phenomena.

Statistical thermodynamics plays a vital linking role between quantum theory and chemical thermodynamics, yet students often find the subject unpalatable.

When leaming very formal material one comes to a stage where one thinks one has understood the material.

Dieses Buch leitet Sie zum selbstständigen Lösen anspruchsvoller Probleme an.

This textbook covers chemical thermodynamics in materials science from basic to advanced level, especially for iron and steel making processes.

This book provides the foundations of analytical thermodynamics for graduate level.

Sie sind eingeladen, die faszinierende Welt der Thermodynamik (Wärmelehre) kennen zu lernen.

The complex processes of state changes can be interpreted by resorting to Statistical Quantum Mechanics.

Bioprocess Engineering Principles, Third Edition provides a solid introduction to bioprocess engineering for students with a limited engineering background.

This textbook is for a one semester introductory course in thermodynamics, primarily for use in a mechanical or aerospace engineering program, although it could also be used in an engineering science curriculum.

I welcome the opportunity to have my book translated, because of the great emphasis on two-phase flow and heat transfer in the English-speaking world, as related to research, university education, and industrial practice.

Cellular automata are fully discrete dynamical systems with dynamical variables defined at the nodes of a lattice and taking values in a finite set.

This textbook presents the fundamentals of statistical thermodynamics and electronic structure theory and focuses on introducing the central concepts of thermodynamics and their relation to microscopic theories in a conceptually clear and simple way.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Nothing happens in the world without energy conversion and entropy production.

A text- and exercise book for physical chemistry students!

This book offers a comprehensive overview of thermodynamics.

Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics of Soils provides a long-needed general scheme for the study of the important yet problematic material of soil.

Boltzmann's formula S = In[W(E)] defines the microcanonical ensemble.

Advances in Heat Transfer fills the information gap between regularly scheduled journals and university-level textbooks by providing in-depth review articles that are from a broader scope than in traditional journals or texts.

This book presents cutting-edge research addressing the mathematical models used to tackle the "e;Target problem"e; as it manifests itself in a wide range of disciplines.

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

Our aim in this book is to present and enlarge upon those aspects of parallel computing that are needed by practitioners of computational science.

There have been few books devoted to the study of phonons, a major area of condensed matter physics.

This volume provides an overview of current research and recent advances in the area of energetic materials, focusing on decomposition, crystal and molecular properties.

Global Warming: Engineering Solutions goes beyond the discussion of what global warming is, and offers complete concrete solutions that can be used to help prevent global warming.

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 Brief deals with externally finned tubes, their geometric parameters, Reynolds number, dimensionless variables, friction factor, plain plate fins on round tubes, the effect of fin spacing, correlations, pain individually finned tubes, circular fins with staggered tubes, low integral fin tubes, wavy fin, enhanced plate  fin geometries with round tubes, Offset Strip Fins, convex louver fins, louvered fin, perforated fin, mesh fin, vortex generator, enhanced circular fin geometries, spine or segmented fin, wire loop fin, flat extruded tubes with internal membranes, plate and fin automotive radiators, performance comparison, numerical simulation, advanced fin geometries, hydrophilic coatings, internally finned tubes and annuli, spirally fluted and  indented tube, advanced internal fin geometries, and finned annuli.

This monograph presents the molecular theory and necessary tools for the study of solvent-induced interactions and forces.

Computer Aided Engineering may be defined as an approach to solving tech- nological problems in which most or all of the steps involved are automated through the use of computers, data bases and mathematical models.

This book elucidates the important role of conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer, mass transport in solids and fluids, and internal and external fluid flow in the behavior of materials processes.

This book presents an introduction to the non-linear mechanics of materials, focusing on a unified energetical approach.

This book offers a unique treatment of building insulating products and the integration of these products with building components.

This book presents methodologies for analysing large data sets produced by the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulence and combustion.

An introductory textbook for standard undergraduate courses in thermodynamics, covering important quantum behaviours, classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.

At first glance it may seem presumptuous to want to add yet another to the numerous books on Differential Thermal Analysis (DT A).

Building on Wilson's renormalization group, the authors have developed a unified approach that not only reproduces known results but also yields new results.