RSICC CODE PACKAGE MIS-007

 

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1.  NAME AND TITLE

JDL-THERMODYNAMICS:        Thermodynamics: Frontiers and Foundations

 

2.  CONTRIBUTORS

Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK,

through OECD Nuclear Energy Agency  Data Bank, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

 

3.  CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

PDF format; many computers (M00007MNYCP00). NEADB ID is NEA-1844/01.

 

4.  NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED

 

Dr. J.D. Lewins has now released the following new book for free distribution:
  
Thermodynamics: Frontiers and Foundations, 
    Preface by Sir Alan Cottrell
    Introduction
1.  Four-Square Foundations: The Laws of Thermodynamics
2.  Maximum Entropy and Minimum Energy: The Master Functions and Equations
3.  Ideal Gases and their Applications
4.  Real Fluids and Some Applications
5.  Van der Waals: A Model for Real Fluids
6.  Surface Tension: Bubbles and Drops
7.  Inert and Reactive Mixtures; An introduction to Chemical Thermodynamics
8.  Radiation Thermodynamics: Solar Power Potential
9.  Outposts of the  Empire
10. A Glimpse into Statistical Thermodynamics
    Envoi

 

NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS -

Jeffery D Lewins

PhD MIT, PhD Cantab, DSc (Eng) London

Magdalene College

Cambridge

CB3 0AG

UK

 

A MATLAB Teaching Program ‘gibbs’ is included to calculate and display the results of equilibrium conditions in any of the nine chemical reactions quoted in this chapter or in a user-specified case. See the Annexure at the end of Chapter 7 for more information on gibbs.

 

5.  METHOD OF SOLUTION

 

6.  RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS

 

7.  TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

 

8.  COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

 

9.  COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Adobe Acrobat Reader can be used to access the files in Portable Data Format (.pdf).

 

10. REFERENCES

J.D. Lewins, “Thermodynamics: Frontiers and Foundations,” Edited and illustrated by Shelagh
Lewins, NEA Data Bank, 2009, electronic publishing (ISBN 978-2-9534095-1-2).

 

11. CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

The package is transmitted in a WinZIP file which contains the book cited above in PDF format and a MATLAB Teaching Program ‘gibbs’.

 

12. DATE OF ABSTRACT

July 2009

 

KEYWORDS:   RADIATION THERMODYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMICS