THERMODYNAMICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ECOPHYSICS (Advances in Statistical Mechanics)

Sertorio, Luigi

ISBN 10: 9971509784 / ISBN 13: 9789971509781

Editore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1990

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This book is a library discard with all the obvious indications. Solidly bound in yellow illustrated boards; inside pages are totally clean and unmarked except for referred to library discard markings. 208 pages.

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• Titolo: THERMODYNAMICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ECOPHYSICS (Advances in Statistical Mechanics)
• Editore: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9971509784
• ISBN 13: 9789971509781
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Science

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This book aims at guiding the reader with continuity from the elements of classical equilibrium thermodynamics to the formal problems of global non equilibrium thermodynamics necessary to describe an “active system” such is a thermodynamic ecosystem. To this purpose, the brief review of equilibrium thermodynamics emphasizes the concepts of disequilibrium, Carnot cycles and less efficient cycles, and Gibbs availability as the distance from equilibrium. In this way the reader is taken by hand to accept the concept of Gibbs efficiency of the ecosystem Earth as a property given to us by the cosmological evolution. The final chapters are devoted to the optimal control theory of global non-equilibrium systems. An elementary theory of zero energy thermodynamic automata is presented. A thermodynamic automation with four temperatures and three controls is discussed in detail.