Thermodynamik muss kein unbeliebtes Fach bei Studierenden sein, das zeigen die Lehrveranstaltungen des Autors dieses Buches. Wie in seinen Lehrveranstaltungen baut er auch im Buch zuerst ein Grundverständnis für die teilweise sehr abstrakten Begriffe der Thermodynamik auf und ve…
This text provides a clear understanding of the fundamental principles of thermal and fluid sciences in a concise manner in a rigorous yet easy to follow language and presentation. Elucidation of the principles is further reinforced by examples and practice problems with detaile…
This book advances a new view of phenomena associated with the spray of liquids from a nozzle in a gas. New results of experimental studies and numerical simulation of the hydrodynamics of an emerging two-phase flow and accompanying interphase heat and mass transfer therein are …
Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization
This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress". For the modern economy, natural wealth consists of complex physical structures of condensed ("frozen") energy -- mass - maintained in the earth's crust far from thermody…
Physical bodies can be hot or cold, moving or standing, simple or complex. In all such cases one assumes that their respective temperature is a well defined attribute. What if, however, the ordinary measurement of temperature by direct body contact is not possible? One conjectur…