Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics

Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems
5. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-22149-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

This fully updated and revised fifth edition of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems emphasizes the unifying role of thermodynamics and their use in transport processes and chemical reactions in physical, chemical, and biological systems. This reorganized new edition provides thermodynamical approaches for foundational understanding of natural phenomena with multiscale chemical, physical, and biological systems, consisting of interactive processes leading to self-organized dissipative structures, fluctuations, and instabilities. This edition also emphasizes thermodynamic approaches, tools, and techniques, including energy analysis, process intensification, and artificial intelligence, for undertaking sustainable engineering.

This book will be an excellent resource for graduate students and researchers in the fields of engineering, chemistry, physics, energy, biotechnology, and biology, as well as those whose work involves understanding the evolution of nonequilibrium systems, information theory, stochastic processes, and sustainable engineering. This may also be useful to professionals working in irreversibility, dissipative structures, process exergy analysis and thermoeconomics, digitalization in manufacturing, and data processing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerbaud, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Verfahrenstechnik, Chemieingenieurwesen
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Technische Thermodynamik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Physik, Chemie für Ingenieure

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Fundamentals of thermodynamics
1. Fundamentals of equilibrium thermodynamics
2. Transport and rate processes
3. Fundamentals of nonequilibrium thermodynamics

Section 2: Sustainable engineering
4. Sustainable engineering: thermodynamic analysis
5. Thermoeconomics

Section 3: Coupled transport and rate processes
6. Diffusion
7. Heat and mass transfer
8. Chemical reactions
9. Coupled systems of chemical reactions and transport processes
10. Membrane transport

Section 4: Biological Systems
11. Thermodynamics and biological systems
12. Stability analysis

Section 5: Organized structures
13. Organized structures

Section 6: Stochastic systems
14. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics approaches
15. Probabilistic approach in thermodynamics

Über Autor(innen)

Gerbaud, Vincent
Dr. Vincent Gerbaud obtained a MSc in Chemical Engineering in 1992 from UMASS, USA and earned his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering in 1996 from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. He joined the French National Scientific Research Center CNRS at Laboratoire de Génie Chimique in Toulouse in 1998 where was promoted research director in 2012. He was the Head of the French GDR CNRS Thermodynamic group from 2014 to 2020. His research field concerns modelling and simulation in process system engineering with a special focus on bridging molecular scales to macro and mega scales systems. Building upon Edgar Morin's paradigm of "la pensée complexe" and combining process system and model-driven engineering concepts with equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamic principles, he addresses with a holistic approach the modelling of complex systems in areas related to engineering connected with macro economy, environmental and social sciences. Dr. Gerbaud co-authored the fourth edition of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics with Dr. Demirel, and 6 book chapters, 100 research papers and his work led to 6 specialized software. He has contributed to promote innovative teaching and learning in engineering classes based on activities of e-learning, writing reflective portfolio and designing mind maps among others tools.