
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems
Description
Key Features
- Provides a useful text for seniors and graduate students from diverse engineering and science programs
- Highlights the fundamentals of equilibrium thermodynamics, transport processes and chemical reactions
- Expands the theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and its use in coupled transport processes and chemical reactions in physical, chemical and biological systems
- Presents a unified analysis for transport and rate processes in various time and space scales
- Discusses stochastic approaches in thermodynamic analysis, including fluctuation and information theories, mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics, constructal law and quantum thermodynamics
Readership
Graduate students, scientists, and researchers in chemical engineering, chemistry, physics, energy, biotechnology, and biology
Table of Contents
1. Fundamentals of equilibrium thermodynamics
2. Transport and rate processes
3. Fundamentals of nonequilibrium thermodynamics
4. Using the second law: thermodynamic analysis
5. Thermoeconomics
6. Diffusion
7. Heat and mass transfer
8. Chemical reactions
9. Coupled systems of chemical reactions and transport processes
10. Membrane transport
11. Thermodynamics and biological systems
12. Stability analysis
13. Organized structures
14. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics approaches
15. Probabilistic approach in thermodynamics
Product details
- No. of pages: 880
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: November 24, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780444641137
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444641120