Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:1, Lb:0]
Knowledge of the content of PHY202 and PHY304 is
essential to follow this course.
- Review of equilibrium thermodynamics: Laws of thermodynamics, Gibbs
equation, Legendre transforms of thermodynamic potentials. Stability
of equilibrium states.
- Classical Irreversible thermodynamics (CIT): Generalized forces and
fluxes, Local equilibrium hypothesis, Onsagar reciprocity relations,
stationary states, minimum entropy production, applications,
limitations of CIT.
- Coupled transport phenomena: Thermoelectric effect, Seebeck effect,
diffusion through a membrane.
- Finite-time thermodynamics: Finite time Carnot cycle, Generalized
potentials, thermodynamic length, criteria for optimal performance.
Quantum models of heat engines.
- Extended irreversible thermodynamics: Heat conduction, Fourier vs.
Cattaneo's law, extended entropy, non-local terms, applications.
- G. Lebon, D. Jou and J. Casas-Vazquez, Understanding
Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics, Springer (2008).
- H. B. Callen, Thermodynamics and an Introduction to
Thermostatistics, 2nd edition, John Wiley and Sons (1985).
- I. Prigogine, Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible
Processes, 3rd edition, Interscience Publishers (1967).
- S. R. De Groot and P. Mazur, Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics,
Dover Publications, New York (2011).
