Advanced Thermodynamics
Lecturer: Prof. Claudio Della Volpe
Timetable 2018
January /February 2018 | Hours | Room |
Friday 26 January | 14:00 - 16:00 | 1H |
Monday 29 January | 10:00 - 12:00 | 1H |
Wednesday 31 January | 14:00 - 16:00 | 1B |
Friday 2 February | 14:00 - 16:00 | 1D |
Monday 5 February | 10:00 - 12:00 | 1H |
Wednesday 7 February | 10:00 - 12:00 | 1H |
Friday 9 February | 14:00 - 16:00 | 1H |
Monday 12 February | 10:00 - 12:00 | 1D |
Wednesday 14 February | 14:00 - 16:00 | 1H |
Duration: 18 hours (2 credits)
Tutorials:
1) The Callen approach. Fundamental functions and their properties.
2) Some correlation with the economy production functions.
3) The Prigogine approach. The introduction of time.
4) The stability of a thermodynamic system. The Gibbs approach and the Liapounov approach.
5) The endoreversible approximation and its applications.
6) The irreversibility, its possible origin: the gravity hypothesis. (The Smolin-Ben Jacob approach).
7) The linear regime and its stability. Onsager relations. Minimum entropy production.
8) The non-linear regime. Oscillating systems. Is there a general evolution criterion? The MEP criterion.
9) Some practical applications of the irreversible thermodynamics: the Ludder bands, the thermocouple, multicomponent diffusion, electrokinetic phenomena, thermoelectric phenomena, some metallurgy techniques, etc.
10) The surface thermodynamics. From Leonardo to Prigogine models of a surface. The wettability: its equations and its applications. The experimental evaluation of the contact angle. The acid-base theory of the surface tension.
Registration: in order to access the course, please send an e-mail to dicamphd [at] unitn.it