Libros de Termodinámica

Éste es un libro claro y conciso sobre los fundamentos de la Termodinámica a un nivel del primer curso de las carreras de Ciencias e Ingenierías. Sus contenidos cubren la parte de Termodinámica que debe explicarse en los cursos de Fisica General y estan estructurados de forma sencilla pero rigurosa, de manera que el alumno que continue estudiando Termodinamica no tenga que borrar los conocimientos adquiridos previamente, como sucede en muchos casos. La estructura del libro conecta con las ideas metodologicas que adoptan las enseñanzas del Espacio Europeo de Educacion Superior y que hacen hincapie en un aprendizaje personalizado. Para ello, cada capitulo se divide en cinco partes: secciones basicas, complementos, experimentos, lecturas adicionales recomendadas y problemas propuestos.

Esta obra representa un esfuerzo por considerar los conceptos básicos y desarrollos de la termodinámica que son de interés para la química, de forma concisa, didáctica y con el rigor adecuado en un libro de texto. Se hace énfasis en el concepto de las funciones termodinámicas de interés químico (energía Hemlhotz, Gibbs, etc) y otras específicas, que son ampliamente utilizadas y que lo seguirán siendo en otros campos como la cinética química, la electroquímica, la metalurgia, la bioquímica, etc., y que hacen de la termodinámica un instrumento práctico en otras disciplinas. Por ello, este libro puede ser útil no sólo a los estudiantes de Termodinámica Química en la licenciatura de Química, sino también también a los estudiantes de Ciencias Materiales, Ciencias del Mar, Bioquímica, Farmacia, Ingeniería Química y Ciencias Medioambientales. El desarrollo de la termodinámica aquí presentada está influenciada por las lecciones de Feynman, Zemansky, Pitzer, Brewer y otros renombrados científicos descendientes de la línea de Gilbert Newton Lewis y sus discípulos: Giauque, Hildebrand, Prausnitz, etc.

The book contains invited lectures from the International Symposium on the Anisotropic Behaviour of Damaged Materials, held in Krakow, Poland, September 9-11, 2002. Eminent researchers and world experts in the field of damage mechanics report recent achievements and state-of-the-art results in the field. The book deals with the anisotropic damage mechanics involving micromechanical aspects and thermo-mechanical coupling. The contents are both of academic interest and relevant for practical applications, especially those concerning more advanced anisotropic models of materials and the transition from the microscopic to the macroscopic level.

Now in its eighth edition, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics continues to offer a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of classical thermodynamics, while retaining an engineering perspective. With concise, applications-oriented discussion of topics and self-test problems the text encourages students to monitor their own comprehension. The eighth edition is updated with additional examples and end-of-chapter problems to increase student understanding. In addition, front-end Learning Objectives have been added.The text lays the groundwork for subsequent studies in fields such as fluid mechanics, heat transfer and statistical thermodynamics, and prepares students to effectively apply thermodynamics in the practice of engineering.

Combustion, the process of burning, is defined as a chemical reaction between a combustible reactant (the fuel) and an oxidizing agent (such as air) in order to produce heat and in most cases light while new chemical species (e.g., flue gas components) are formed. This book covers a gap on the market by providing a concise introduction to combustion. Most of the other books currently available are targeted towards the experienced users and contain too many details and/or contain knowledge at a fairly high level. This book provides a brief and clear overview of the combustion basics, suitable for beginners and then focuses on practical aspects, rather than theory, illustrated by a number of industrial applications as examples. The content is aimed to provide a general understanding of the various concepts, techniques and equipment for students at all level as well as practitioners with little or no prior experience in the field. The authors are all international experts in the field of combustion technology and adopt here a clear didactic style with many practical examples to cover the most common solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. The associated environmental impacts are also discussed so that readers can develop an understanding of the major issues and the options available for more sustainable combustion processes. With a foreword by Katharina Kohse-Hoinghaus

The Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses is an important interdisciplinary reference work. In addition to topics on thermal stresses, it contains entries on related topics, such as the theory of elasticity, heat conduction, thermodynamics, appropriate topics on applied mathematics, and topics on numerical methods. The Encyclopedia is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and engineers. It brings together well established knowledge and recently received results. All entries were prepared by leading experts from all over the world, and are presented in an easily accessible format. The work is lavishly illustrated, examples and applications are given where appropriate, ideas for further development abound, and the work will challenge many students and researchers to pursue new results of their own. This work can also serve as a one-stop resource for all who need succinct, concise, reliable and up to date information in short encyclopedic entries, while the extensive references will be of interest to those who need further information. For the coming decade, this is likely to remain the most extensive and authoritative work on Thermal Stresses.

This excellent and novel scientific work has given an area of key research a significant step forward. The systematic documentation of the approach to describing phase transitions will facilitate further applications of the theory to important problems. | A thermodynamically consistent description of the transport across interfaces in mixtures has for a long time been an open issue. This research clarifies that the interface between a liquid and a vapor in a mixture is in local equilibrium during evaporation and condensation. It implies that the thermodynamics developed for interfaces by Gibbs can be applied also away from equilibrium, which is typically the case in reality. A description of phase transitions is of great importance for the understanding of both natural and industrial processes. For example, it is relevant for the understanding of the increase of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, or improvements of efficiency in distillation columns. This excellent work of luminescent scientific novelty has brought this area a significant step forward. The systematic documentation of the approach will facilitate further applications of the theoretical framework to important problems.

El presente texto tiene dos características que lo diferencian de los libros de texto clásicos de transferencia de calor. Una de ellas tiene que ver con el desarrollo de la convección térmica en base al analisis integral de la capa limite, procedimiento que proporciona una demostracion relativamente sencilla de la analogia de Colburn, a traves de la cual se desarrollan y justifican las correlaciones del coeficiente de transferencia de calor en los casos de flujo con capa limite. La otra es la serie relativamente extensa de problemas resueltos, con la que se pretende proveer al alumno con un material de estudio que le permita adquirir capacidad de analisis y de modelizacion de problemas relacionados con la ciencia de la transferencia de calor. Algunos capitulos han recibido un tratamiento diferenciado con el objetivo de proporcionar una profundizacion en temas que en la mayoria de los cursos introductorios suelen ser tratados de forma superficial, aunque importantes en las aplicaciones. Tal es el caso del Capitulo 7, Transferencia de calor con cambio de fase, y del Capitulo 10, Conduccion de calor. Metodos numericos. Finalmente cabe destacar el Apendice A en el que se presentan propiedades termodinamicas y de transporte de los fluidos y solidos masimportantes en las ciencias termicas.

No es un libro de texto al uso que responda a un programa de un determinado plan de estudios, más bien con sus contenidos se pueden confeccionar e impartir, eligiéndolos adecuadamente, programas distintos y variados, desde un nivel introductorio a un nivel mas avanzado.La estructura de los capitulos sigue una metodologia que comprende unos contenidos principales y unos complementos. En el texto principal se exponen y desarrollan las que consideramos partes basicas del capitulo, mientras que en los complementos aparecen aquellas partes, no de menor importancia, que completan o muestran versiones alternativas al texto principal.

This introductory text treats thermodynamics as an incomplete description of quantum systems with many degrees of freedom. Its main goal is to show that the approach to equilibrium - with equilibrium characterized by maximum ignorance about the open system of interest - neither requires that many particles nor is the precise way of partitioning, relevant for the salient features of equilibrium and equilibration. Furthermore, the text depicts that it is indeed quantum effects that are at work in bringing about thermodynamic behavior of modest-sized open systems, thus making Von Neumann's concept of entropy appear much more widely useful than sometimes feared, far beyond truly macroscopic systems in equilibrium. This significantly revised and expanded second edition pays more attention to the growing number of applications, especially non-equilibrium phenomena and thermodynamic processes of the nano-domain. In addition, to improve readability and reduce unneeded technical details, a large portion of this book has been thoroughly rewritten.

Este libro pretende facilitar herramientas matemáticas y modelos que se emplean en diversos campos (por ejemplo, coordenadas curvilíneas no ortogonales, concepto de tensor, fluido newtoniano) pero cuya dispersion en programas y bibliografia dificultan una vision de conjunto. Teniendo en cuenta que la termodinamica de no-equilibrio es una herramienta basica para el estudio de los sistemas continuos.

This book provides a comprehensive basics-to-advanced course in an aero-thermal science vital to the design of engines for either type of craft. The text classifies engines powering aircraft and single/multi-stage rockets, and derives performance parameters for both from basic aerodynamics and thermodynamics laws. Each type of engine is analyzed for optimum performance goals, and mission-appropriate engines selection is explained. Fundamentals of Aircraft and Rocket Propulsion provides information about and analyses of: * thermodynamic cycles of shaft engines (piston, turboprop, turboshaft and propfan); * jet engines (pulsejet, pulse detonation engine, ramjet, scramjet, turbojet and turbofan); * chemical and non-chemical rocket engines; * conceptual design of modular rocket engines (combustor, nozzle and turbopumps); and * conceptual design of different modules of aero-engines in their design and off-design state. Aimed at graduate and final-year undergraduate students, this textbook provides a thorough grounding in the history and classification of both aircraft and rocket engines, important design features of all the engines detailed, and particular consideration of special aircraft such as unmanned aerial and short/vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. End-of-chapter exercises make this a valuable student resource, and the provision of a downloadable solutions manual will be of further benefit for course instructors.