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edocfu_9958916169902883
Format:
1 online resource (292 p.)
ISBN:
9783110350951
Content:
One common feature of new emerging technologies is the fusion of the very small (nano) scale and the large scale engineering. The classical environment provided by single scale theories, as for instance by the classical hydrodynamics, is not anymore satisfactory. The main challenge is to keep the important details while still be able to keep the overall picture and simplicity. It is the thermodynamics that addresses this challenge. Our main reason for writing this book is to explain such general viewpoint of thermodynamics and to illustrate it on a very wide range of examples. ContentsLevels of descriptionHamiltonian mechanicsIrreversible evolutionReversible and irreversible evolutionMulticomponent systemsContact geometryAppendix: Mathematical aspects
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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1. Introduction --
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2. Levels of description --
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3. Hamiltonian mechanics --
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4. Irreversible evolution --
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5. Reversible and irreversible evolution --
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6. Multicomponent systems --
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7. Contact geometry --
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A Mathematical aspects --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110387537
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110350944
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110350951
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110350951
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