Variational and extremum principles in macroscopic systems

it Is Becoming More And More Important To Manage Energy Resources Effectively: To Maximize Their Benefits While Minimizing The Negative Environmental Impacts. Scientist And Engineers Are Thus Faced With The Problem Of Optimizing Complex Systems Subject To Constraints From, Ecology, Economics, And Thermodynamics. It Is Chiefly To The Last That The Present Volume Is Addressed. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamic Approaches, Such As Finite-time Thermodynamics And Second-law Analyses, Can Provide Realistic Models And Analyses That Can Be Used To Search For Optimum Ways To Operate Machines And Processes. Intended For Physicists, Chemists, And Engineers, This Volume Reviews The State Of The Art In The Thermodynamics Of Energy Conversion And Transmission. Using Examples From Solar, Thermal, Mechanical, Chemical, And Environmental Engineering, The Book Focuses On The Use Of Thermodynamic Criteria For Optimizing Energy Conversion And Transmission. The First Set Of Chapters Focuses On Solar Energy Conversion; The Second Set Discusses The Transfer And Conversion Of Chemical Energy (as In Internal Combustion Engines Or Distillation Columns); A Concluding Set Of Chapters Deals With Geometric Methods In Thermodynamics. Foreword......Page 5 Volume Editor's Preface......Page 7 Preface......Page 8 List of Contributors......Page 14 Part I Chapter 01......Page 19 Part I Chapter 02......Page 41 Part I Chapter 03......Page 73 Part I Chapter 04......Page 91 Part I Chapter 05......Page 112 Part I Chapter 06......Page 130 Part I Chapter 07......Page 146 Part I Chapter 08......Page 172 Part I Chapter 09......Page 201 Part I Chapter 10......Page 220 Part I Chapter 11......Page 239 Part I Chapter 12......Page 257 Part I Chapter 13......Page 279 Part I Chapter 14......Page 304 Part I Chapter 15......Page 325 Part I Chapter 16......Page 349 Part I Chapter 17......Page 365 Part II Chapter 01......Page 384 Part II Chapter 02......Page 400 Part II Chapter 03......Page 416 Part II Chapter 04......Page 442 Part II Chapter 05......Page 457 Part II Chapter 06......Page 475 Part II Chapter 07......Page 497 Part II Chapter 08......Page 523 Part II Chapter 09......Page 542 Part II Chapter 10......Page 559 Part II Chapter 11......Page 575 Part II Chapter 12......Page 601 Part II Chapter 13......Page 625 Part II Chapter 14......Page 638 Part II Chapter 15......Page 669 Part II Chapter 16......Page 687 Part II Chapter 17......Page 708 Part II Chapter 18......Page 726 Glossary of Principal Symbols......Page 744 Subject Index......Page 748 sieniutycz_toc.pdf......Page 0 Part I: Theory......Page 1 Part II: Applications......Page 2 II.13. Optimal Finite-Time Endoreversible Processes- General......Page 3 Glossary of principal symbols......Page 4 "Intended for physicists, chemists, and engineers, this volume reviews the state of the art in the thermodynamics of energy conversion and transmission. Using examples from solar, thermal, mechanical, chemical, and environmental engineering, the book focuses on the use of thermodynamic criteria for optimizing energy conversion and transmission."--Page 4 de la couverture "Intended for physicists, chemists, and engineers, this volume reviews the state of the art in the thermodynamics of energy conversion and transmission. Using examples from solar, thermal, mechanical, chemical, and environmental engineering, the book focuses on the use of thermodynamic criteria for optimizing energy conversion and transmission."--Jacket