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Multiscale Thermo-Dynamics
eBook - Introduction to GENERIC
ISBN/EAN: 9783110387537
Umbreit-Nr.: 8486096
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 292 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 06.08.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>One common feature of new emerging technologies is the fusion of the very small (nano) scale and the large scale engineering. The classical environment provided by single scale theories, as for instance by the classical hydrodynamics, is not anymore satisfactory. The main challenge is to keep the important details while still be able to keep the overall picture and simplicity. It is the thermodynamics that addresses this challenge. Our main reason for writing this book is to explain such general viewpoint of thermodynamics and to illustrate it on a very wide range of examples.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Contents<br></strong>Levels of description<br>Hamiltonian mechanics<br>Irreversible evolution<br>Reversible and irreversible evolution<br>Multicomponent systems<br>Contact geometry<br>Appendix: Mathematical aspects</p>
- Kurztext
- One common feature of new emerging technologies is the fusion of the very small (nano) scale and the large scale engineering. The classical environment provided by single scale theories, as for instance by the classical hydrodynamics, is not anymore satisfactory. The main challenge is to keep the important details while still be able to keep the overall picture and simplicity. It is the thermodynamics that addresses this challenge. Our main reason for writing this book is to explain such general viewpoint of thermodynamics and to illustrate it on a very wide range of examples. a ContentsLevels of descriptionHamiltonian mechanicsIrreversible evolutionReversible and irreversible evolutionMulticomponent systemsContact geometryAppendix: Mathematical aspects
- Autorenportrait
- <p><strong>Václav Klika</strong>, Czech Tech. Univ., Czech Rep.;<strong>Michal Pavelka</strong>, Charles Univ., Czech Rep.;<strong>Miroslav Grmela</strong>, Polytech. de Montréal, Canada.</p>