Advances in thermodynamics of the van der Waals fluid /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
[2014]
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| Series: | IOP concise physics.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Author biography
- Introduction
- Background and nomenclature : the ideal gas
- van der Waals intermolecular interaction parameters
- Thermodynamic variables and properties in terms of the van der Waals interaction parameters
- Helmholtz free energy
- Critical pressure, temperature and volume
- Entropy, internal energy and heat capacity at constant volume
- Pressure and enthalpy
- Chemical potential
- van der Waals equation of state, reduced variables and laws of corresponding states
- van der Waals equation of state and reduced variables
- Laws of corresponding states
- Pressure versus volume and versus density isotherms
- Influence of the van der Waals interactions on the pressure of the gas phase
- Boyle temperature
- Thermodynamic properties expressed in reduced variables
- Equilibrium pressure-volume, temperature-volume and pressure-temperature phase diagrams
- Pressure-volume phase diagram and Maxwell construction
- Volume-temperature phase diagram
- Lever rule
- Pressure-temperature phase diagram
- Lekner's parametric solution of the coexistence curve and associated properties
- Thermodynamic behaviors on approaching the critical temperature from below
- Thermodynamic behaviors for temperatures approaching zero
- Coexisting liquid and gas densities, transition order parameter and temperature-density phase diagram
- Latent heat and entropy of vaporization
- Heat capacity at constant volume versus temperature within the liquid-gas coexistence region along an isochoric path
- Static critical exponents
- Heat capacity at constant volume
- Pressure versus volume isotherm at the critical temperature
- Critical chemical potential isotherm versus number density
- Liquid-gas transition order parameter
- Isothermal compressibility
- Approach to the critical point along the critical isobar
- Superheating and supercooling
- Additional numerical calculations of thermodynamic properties
- Isotherms versus density in the supercritical temperature region
- Isobars versus temperature
- Adiabatic free expansion and Joule-Thomson expansion
- Adiabatic free expansion
- Joule-Thomson expansion
- Appendices
- A. Tables of values
- B. Formulas for the discontinuities in isothermal compressibility, thermal expansion and heat capacity versus temperature at constant pressure on crossing the liquid-gas coexistence curve
- C. Formula for the heat capacity at constant volume in the coexistence region along the critical isochore.