The Dynamics of Heat A Unified Approach to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer /

• Main Author: Fuchs, Hans U. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Chemistry, Physical organic.; Thermodynamics.; Engineering.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Energy, general.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Physical Chemistry.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7604-8

Based on courses for students of science, engineering, and systems science at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences at Winterthur, this text approaches the fundamentals of thermodynamics from the point of view of continuum physics. By describing physical processes in terms of the flow and balanc...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: From Metaphors to Models of Heat
• PART I: Fluids, Electricity, and Energy
• Storage and Flow of Fluids
• Electricity, Fluids, and Oscillatory Systems
• Energy in Physical Processes
• PART II: Thermal and Chemical Processes
• Storage, Flow, and Production of Heat
• Transport of Substances
• The Response of Gases and Radiation to Heat
• Chemical Reactions and Heat
• Transport of Heat
• Minimization of Entropy Production
• PART III: A Dynamical Theory of Heat
• Thernodynamics of Uniform Processes
• Chemical processes in uniform fluid systems
• Laws of balance in continuous processes
• Thermodynamics of continuous processes
• PART IV: Special Processes and Systems
• Conduction and Thermoelectricity
• Radiation and Radiative Transport of Heat
• Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer
• Phase Changes and Engines
• Mixtures and Solutions.