Printable versionAdvanced Thermodynamics
Lecturer: prof. Claudio Della Volpe (DICAM/UNITN)
Timetable: January/February 2021 (schedule to be confirmed)
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.
Duration: 18 hours (2 credits)
Registration: in order to access the course, please send an e-mail to dicamphd [at] unitn.it