Thermodynamic Approaches in Engineering Systems

Comprehensive reference providing a synthesis of nontrivial achievements of thermodynamics in important branches of chemical and biochemical engineering

Stanislaw Sieniutycz (Author)

9780128054628

Paperback, published 3 June 2016

738 pages
23.4 x 19 x 4.5 cm, 1.47 kg

Approx.720 pages

1. Contemporary thermodynamics for engineering systems2. Variational approaches to non-equilibrium thermodynamics3. Wave equations of heat and mass transfer4. Classical and anomalous diffusion 5. Thermodynamic Lapunov functions and stability 6. Analysing drying operations in thermodynamic diagrams 7. Frictional fluid flow through inhomogeneous porous bed 8. Thermodynamics and optimization of practical processes 9. Thermodynamic controls in chemical reactors10. Power limits in thermo-chemical units, fuel cells and separation systems 11. Thermodynamic aspects of engineering biosystems 12. Multiphase flow systems 13. Radiation and solar systems14. Appendix: A causal theory of hydrodynamics and heat transfer

Subject Areas: Mechanical engineering [TGB], Chemical engineering [TDCB], Thermodynamics & heat [PHH], Physics [PH]