John W. Daily

Gebundenes Buch

Statistical Thermodynamics

An Engineering Approach

Beschreibung

This text is for graduate or advanced undergraduate statistical thermodynamics courses in mechanical or aerospace engineering. It covers the relationship between macroscopic and microscopic thermodynamics and derives properties for gases, liquids and solids. It also covers non-equilibrium behavior as found in kinetic theory and chemical kinetics.

Autor

John Daily is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Combustion and Environmental Research at the University of Colorado Boulder and previously was a faculty member at University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and serves on the AIAA Executive Publications Committee. He has regular contributor to the AIAA Journal, the Combustion Institute Journal and the ASME Heat Transfer Journal. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the thermal-sciences, including thermodynamics. He is a founder of Precision Biopsy, LLC., a company that is developing optical biopsy instrumentation for cancer detection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 188mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9781108415316
• ISBN-10: 1108415318
• Artikelnr.: 53215754