Thermodynamics
Subtitle: systems in equilibrium and non-equilibrium
By: edited by Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján
Publisher: InTech
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Croatia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9789533072838
Subjects: Thermodynamics; Nonequilibrium thermodynamics; Thermodynamic equilibrium
Other titles: Systems in equilibrium and non-equilibrium
Description: Thermodynamics is one of the most exciting branches of physical chemistry which has greatly contributed to the modern science. Being concentrated on a wide range of applications of thermodynamics, this book gathers a series of contributions by the finest scientists in the world, gathered in an orderly manner.
Notes: "DOI: 10.5772/1435"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-306)

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Mar. 11, 2013).
Table of contents: title: Thermodynamics of Seed and Plant Growth  -- Vesna Dragicevic and Slobodanka Sredojevic; title: The Concept of Temperature in the Modern Physics  -- Dmitrii Tayurskii and Alain Le Mehaute; title: Photosynthetic Productivity: Can Plants do Better?  -- John B. Skillman, Kevin L. Griffin, Sonya Earll and Mitsuru Kusama; title: Thermodynamics in Mono and Biphasic Continuum Mechanics  -- Henry Wong, Chin J Leo and Natalie Dufour; title: Heat - Mechanically Induced Structure Development in Undrawn Polyester Fibers  -- Valentin Velev, Anton Popov and Bogdan Bogdanov; title: Conception of an Absorption Refrigerating System Operating at Low Enthalpy Sources  -- Nahla Bouaziz, Ridha BenIffa, Ezzedine Nehdi and Lakdar Kairouani; title: Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Landscape Ecology and Vegetation Science  -- Vittorio Ingegnoli; title: The Mean-Field Theory in the Study of Ferromagnets and the Magnetocaloric Effect  -- J. S. Amaral, S. Das and V. S. Amaral; title: Entropy Generation in Viscoelastic Fluid Over a Stretching Surface  -- Saouli Salah and Aïboud Soraya; title: From Particle Mechanics to Pixel Dynamics: Utilizing Stochastic Resonance Principle for Biomedical Image Enhancement  -- V.P.Subramanyam Rallabandi and Prasun Kumar Roy; title: Thermodynamics of Amphiphilic Drug Imipramine Hydrochloride in Presence of Additives  -- Sayem Alam, Abhishek Mandal and Asit Baran Mandal; title: Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Ising Magnets  -- Rıza Erdem and Gül Gülpınar; title: The Thermodynamics of Defect Formation in Self-Assembled Systems -- Colm T. O'Mahony, Richard A. Farrell, Tandra Goshal, Justin D. Holmes and Michael A. Morris.