Lecture

Heat Flow and Inhomogeneous System

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ME-212: Mechanical Design I: Manufacturing Processes

Application des principales catégories de procédés de production. Modèles physiques élémentaires décrivant le comportement des principaux procédés de production. Compréhension de base des aspects économiques des procédés de production. Méthodologie de ...

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This lecture covers the definition and analogies of heat flow, the principle of conservation of energy applied to heat transfer, and the evolution of a thermodynamic system in the context of temperature, concentration, and heat flux. It also discusses the evolution of a thermodynamic system in a compressible medium with solute concentration, introducing key concepts and equations.

Instructor

Eric Boillat

Contact Microcity Phone: 41 21 69 54456 Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Serguei Kolossov, Cédric André, Jamasp Jhabvala, Christoph Van Gestel, Tatiana Polivnikova, Nikola Kalentics Courses Industrial production processes ME-212 Application windows of the main manufacturing process categories. Implementation of simple models describing the behavior of the main manufacturing processes. Basic understanding of the economic aspects of production processes. Manufacturing proc

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Thermodynamics: Statistical mechanics

Related concepts (31)

Heat transfer coefficient

In thermodynamics, the heat transfer coefficient or film coefficient, or film effectiveness, is the proportionality constant between the heat flux and the thermodynamic driving force for the flow of heat (i.e., the temperature difference, ΔT ). It is used in calculating the heat transfer, typically by convection or phase transition between a fluid and a solid. The heat transfer coefficient has SI units in watts per square meter per kelvin (W/m2/K).

Thermodynamic equilibrium

Thermodynamic equilibrium is an axiomatic concept of thermodynamics. It is an internal state of a single thermodynamic system, or a relation between several thermodynamic systems connected by more or less permeable or impermeable walls. In thermodynamic equilibrium, there are no net macroscopic flows of matter nor of energy within a system or between systems. In a system that is in its own state of internal thermodynamic equilibrium, no macroscopic change occurs.

Thermodynamic process

Classical thermodynamics considers three main kinds of thermodynamic process: (1) changes in a system, (2) cycles in a system, and (3) flow processes. (1)A Thermodynamic process is a process in which the thermodynamic state of a system is changed. A change in a system is defined by a passage from an initial to a final state of thermodynamic equilibrium. In classical thermodynamics, the actual course of the process is not the primary concern, and often is ignored.

Heat

In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference. In colloquial use, heat sometimes refers to thermal energy itself. An example of formal vs. informal usage may be obtained from the right-hand photo, in which the metal bar is "conducting heat" from its hot end to its cold end, but if the metal bar is considered a thermodynamic system, then the energy flowing within the metal bar is called internal energy, not heat.

Thermodynamic potential

A thermodynamic potential (or more accurately, a thermodynamic potential energy) is a scalar quantity used to represent the thermodynamic state of a system. Just as in mechanics, where potential energy is defined as capacity to do work, similarly different potentials have different meanings. The concept of thermodynamic potentials was introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1886. Josiah Willard Gibbs in his papers used the term fundamental functions. One main thermodynamic potential that has a physical interpretation is the internal energy U.

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