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2.43 S24 Abstracts of Lecture Contents with Hyperlinks to Slides and Video Timestamps

2.43 S24 Analytical Index with Hyperlinks to Slides and Video Timestamps

2.43 S24 Lecture 01: Definitions of System, Property, State, and Weight Process; First Law and Energy

2.43 S24 Lecture 02: Second Law and Entropy; Adiabatic Availability; Maximum Entropy Principle

2.43 S24 Lecture 03: Energy vs Entropy Diagrams to Represent Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium States

2.43 S24 Lecture 04: Temperature, Pressure, Chemical Potentials; The Clausius Statement of the Second Law

2.43 S24 Lecture 05: Definition of Heat Interaction; First and Second Law Efficiencies

2.43 S24 Lecture 06: Free Energies, Available Energies, and Stability Conditions

2.43 S24 Lecture 07: Availability Functions and the LeChatelier-Braun Principle

2.43 S24 Lecture 08: Few versus Many Particles: The Euler Relation; Review of Various Forms of Exergy (Part I)

2.43 S24 Lecture 09: Minimum Work of Partitioning Small Systems; Gibbs’ Phase Rule; The Van der Waals Model

2.43 S24 Lecture 10: Review of Various Forms of Exergy (Part II); Allocation of Consumptions in Cogeneration

2.43 S24 Lecture 11: Allocation in Hybrid Power Production; Chemical Potentials and Partial Pressures

2.43 S24 Lecture 12: Ideal Mixture Behavior; Work from Reversible Mixing; Entropy of Irreversible Mixing

2.43 S24 Lecture 13: Gibbs Paradox; Shannon Information Entropy; Single Quantum Particle in a Box

2.43 S24 Lecture 14: Ideal Solution Model; Osmotic Pressure; Blue Energy; Minimum Work of Separation

2.43 S24 Lecture 15: Stratification in Gas and Liquid Mixtures; Liquid-Vapor Spinodal Decomposition

2.43 S24 Lecture 16: Liquid-Vapor Equilibria in Mixtures; Ideal and Excess Chemical Potentials

2.43 S24 Lecture 17: Liquid-Liquid Spinodal Decomposition; Introduction to Systems with Chemical Reactions

2.43 S24 Lecture 18: Properties of Reaction; Heating Values and Exergy of Fuels; Adiabatic Flame Temperature

2.43 S24 Lecture 19: Affinity and Nonequilibrium Law of Mass Action; Potential Energy Surface

2.43 S24 Lecture 20: Chemical Kinetics; The Arrhenius Law; Degree of Disequilibrium; Principle of Detailed Balance

2.43 S24 Lecture 21: Introduction to Nonequilibrium Theory; Onsager Reciprocity and Maximum Entropy Production

2.43 S24 Lecture 22: Definition of "Heat&Diffusion" Interaction; Diffusive and Convective Fluxes

2.43 S24 Lecture 23: Direct and Cross Effects; General Principles of Entropy Production; The Fourth Law

2.43 S24 Lecture 24: Relative Diffusion Fluxes; Thermoelectric Effects

2.43 S24 Lecture 25: Thermodiffusive Effects; Multicomponent Transport

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. Gian Paolo Beretta

Departments

Mechanical Engineering

As Taught In

Spring 2024

Level

Graduate

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Prof. Gian Paolo Beretta

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Mechanical Engineering

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Spring 2024

Level

Graduate

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