Ilya Prigogine, “Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes”
John Wiley Sons Inc | 1968 | ISBN: 0470699280 | 164 pages | Djvu | 1 mb
Contents
Preface to the First Edition v
Preface to the Second Edition vii
Preface to the Third Edition ix
CHAPTER I
Conservation of Energy in Closed and Open Systems�?br/>1. Isolated, Closed, and Open Systems 3
2. Extensive and Intensive Properties 3
3. Conservation of Mass in Closed Systems 4
4. Conservation of Mass in Open Systems 6
CHAPTER II
Conservation of Energy in Closed and Open Systems�?br/>The First Principle of Thermodynamics
1. Functions of State 8
2. Conservation of Energy—The First Principle of
Thermodynamics 8
3. Enthalpy 10
4. Open Systems 11
5. Examples 12
CHAPTER III
Entropy Production—The Second Principle of
Thermodynamics
1. Reversible and Irreversible Processes 14
2. Entropy 15
3. Entropy of One-Component Systems—Absolute
Temperature 18
4. Entropy Production Due to Heat Flow 19
5. Entropy of Multicomponent Systems—Chemical
Potentials 21
6. Entropy Production Due to Chemical Reactions�?br/>Affinity—Coupling of Chemical Reactions . 23
7. Chemical Affinity 25
8. Entropy Production and Entropy Flow in Open
Systems 28
9. Entropy Production Due to Electrochemical
Reactions 29
10. Entropy Production in Continuous Systems . 32
11. Internal Degrees of Freedom 36
CHAPTER IV
General Statements Concerning Entropy Production and
Rates of Irreversible Processes
1. Transformation Properties of Rates and Affinities�?br/>Equivalent Systems 40
2. Rates and Affinities 44
3. Fluctuation Theory 47
4. Microscopic Reversibility and Onsager’s Reciprocity
Relations 51
5. Symmetry Requirements on Coupling of Irreversible
Processes 53
chapter v
The Phenomenological Laws—Interference of Irreversible
Processes
1. Domain of Validity of Phenomenological Laws�?br/>Chemical Reactions Near Equilibrium 55
2. Electrokinetic Effects—Saxen’s Relation 61
3. Thermomolecular Pressure Difference and Thermo-
mechanical Effect 65
4. Kinetic Interpretation of Heat of Transfer—Knudsen
Gas 68
5. Diffusion—Einstein’s Relation 71
6. Continuous and Discontinuous Formalism 73
CHAPTER VI
The Stationary Non-Equilibrium States
1. Thermodynamic Significance of Stationary Non-
Equilibrium States 75
2. States of Minimum Entropy Production 76
3. Consecutive Chemical Reactions 77
4. solon Complicated Systems of Chemical Reactions . 80
5. Time Variation of Entropy Production—Stability of
Stationary States 81
6. Entropy Flow in Stationary States 83
7. Time Variation of the Entropy 85
8. Stationary State Coupling of Irreversible Processes . 87
9. Applications in Biology 91
CHAPTER VII
Non-linear Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes
1. Introduction 93
2. Variation of the Entropy Production . 95
3. Steady States and Entropy Production . 99
4. Evolution Criterion and Velocity Potential 106
5. Rotation around Stationary States Ill
6. Local Potentials and Fluctuations 112
CHAPTER VIII
Order and Dissipations
1. Introduction 117
2. Chemical Oscillations 120
3. Dissipative Structures 124
4. Symmetry Breaking Instabilities—The Turing
Mechanism 127
5. General Comments 132
References 135
List of Symbols 141
Index 145
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