Syllabus
- Equilibrium, state variables
- Reversible and irreversible processes, equilibrium vs. nonequilibrium thermodynamics
- The first law of thermodynamics, heat work, thermodynamic potentials
- The second and third laws of thermodynamics, entropy, mixing, Gibbs-Duhem relation
- Open systems, Gibbs energy
- Phases, components, the phase rule, unary/binary/ternary phase diagrams, phase boundaries, Clapeyron slope
- Ideal solution, Dalton’s law, Henry’s law, Raoult’s law
- Non-ideal solutions, activity, fugacity
- The equilibrium constant
- Redox reactions, oxygen fugacity
- Equation of state, ideal gas, van der Waals, virial equation, Birch-Murnaghan
- Solid solutions, mineral assemblages, electrolyte solutions, rock-water systems
- Reaction kinetics, rate laws
- Thermodynamics applied to continuum, viscous fluid, elastic solid, Clausius-Duhem inequality, entropy
- principle of Müller and Liu
Annotation
This course follows up and extends the core thermodynamics course. The formalism of thermodynamics is applied to describe various physical processes which take place in natural systems, with special focus on geophysical settings.
Thermodynamics is applied in modeling deformation and flow of continuum materials.