Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics

Yasar Demirel

ISBN 10: 0444595570 / ISBN 13: 9780444595577

Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology Jan 2014, 2014

Beschreibung

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780444595577

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology Jan 2014
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0444595570
• ISBN-13: 9780444595577
• Einband: Buch
• Auflage: 3. Auflage
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 243B x 205 H x 37 T Millimeter Breite: 243 mm, Höhe: 205 mm, Tiefe: 37 mm
• Gewicht: 1763 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Natural phenomena consist of simultaneously occurring transport processes and chemical reactions. These processes may interact with each other and may lead to self-organized structures, fluctuations, instabilities, and evolutionary systems. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Third Edition emphasizes the unifying role of thermodynamics in analyzing the natural phenomena. This third edition updates and expands on the first and second editions by focusing on the general balance equations for coupled processes of physical, chemical, and biological systems. The new edition contains a new chapter on stochastic approaches to include the statistical thermodynamics, mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics, fluctuation theory, information theory, and modeling the coupled biochemical systems in thermodynamic analysis. This new addition also comes with more examples and practice problems.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Yaşar Demirel earned his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1981. He carried out research and scholarly work at the University of Delaware between 1999 and 2001. He worked at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg as a visiting professor between 2002 and 2006. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Chemical Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He has accumulated broad teaching and research experience over the years in diverse fields of engineering. Dr. Demirel authored and co-authored 11 books, four book chapters, and more than 170 research papers. The fourth edition of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics was published in 2019. The third edition of the book titled “Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling” was published in 2021. He co-authored the book “Sustainable Engineering” to be published in early 2023 by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. He has obtained several awards and scholarships and presented invited seminars.