2.43 | Spring 2024 | Graduate

Advanced Thermodynamics

Lecture 7: Availability Functions and the LeChatelier-Braun Principle

Jacobian determinants, cyclic relation, Mayer’s relation. Availability functions and criteria for the stability of equilibrium. The LeChatelier-Braun principle (part II). Maximum work from a nonequilibrium state, minimum work to produce a nonequilibrium state.

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