Thermodynamics II

The aim of the course is to enable students to understand and apply the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics. After presenting the first and second principles of thermodynamics, the lecture will address questions of irreversibility and thermodynamic potentials.

After establishing these conceptual foundations, which are the subject of the first part, their engineering applications, such as heat transfer, calorimetry and phase transitions, will be covered. Next, we'll look at the conversion of chemical energy into electricity from a chemical point of view.

Finally, more advanced topics are covered, namely thermodynamic cycles, thermal machines, thermodynamic concepts adapted to the continuous medium and finally irreversible processes.

Professor J.-Ph. Ansermet, who initiated this course, is surrounded by experts and specialists in the various fields of application, teaching thermodynamics in various partner institutions of the RESCIF network. They are: Professor Michael Grätzel and Doctor Sylvain Brechet from EPFL, Professors Paul Ekam, Théophile Mband, Marthe Boyomo and André Talla from ENSP Yaoundé, Professor Miltiadis Papalexandris from UCL Louvain, Professor Etienne Robert from Polytechnique de Montréal and Professor Marwan Brouche from Université St-Joseph de Beyrouth.