Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Description
Review of basic fundamentals, closed system and open system formulations, laws of thermodynamics, the maximum entropy principle, concept of equations of state, ideal gas, van der Waals equations and other variants, compressibility, maximum work theorem, exergy, energy minimum principle, thermodynamic potentials and relationships for compressible, elastic, electric and magnetic systems, stability conditions of potentials, multicomponent systems, entropy of mixing, chemical potential, mixtures, conditions of equilibrium and stability of multicomponent systems, thermodynamics of reactive mixtures.