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2.42: General Thermodynamics
Class Information
CombustionEnergySystemsThermal
Fall | Graduate | 12 Units | Prereq: Permission of instructor
General foundations of thermodynamics from an entropy point of view, entropy generation and transfer in complex systems. Definitions of work, energy, stable equilibrium, available energy, entropy, thermodynamic potential, and interactions other than work (nonwork, heat, mass transfer). Applications to properties of materials, bulk flow, energy conversion, chemical equilibrium, combustion, and industrial manufacturing.
Instructor Information
Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou (Fall)
Quentin Berg (1937) Professor of Mechanical Engineering; MechE Graduate Officer; Co-Director, Center for Computational Science and Engineering; Associate Director, Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High Enthalpy Fluid-Solid Interactions
Interest Areas
- Kinetic transport for small-scale fluid flow and solid-state heat transfer applications
- Molecular and stochastic simulation of nanoscale transport phenomena
- Molecular and multiscale simulation method development