MECH 541
Advanced Thermodynamics
Units: 1.5
Principles of classical thermodynamics; postulates, conditions of equilibrium, some relationships and simple systems, reversible process, Legendre transformations, extremum principles, Maxwell relations, stability, first-order phase transitions. Thermodynamics of irreversible processes. Fundamentals of statistical thermodynamics.
Graduate course in the Mechanical Engineering program offered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.