Overview
- Brings forth students’ understanding of how heat and work are different and why the principle of their inter-convertibility (i.e., exchangeability) should be rejected;
- Elucidates the constructive role of entropy growth, and the notion that energy matters, but entropy growth matters more;
- Demonstrates that heat can be transferred, produced, and extracted;
- Teaches readers that all reversible-like processes are heat extraction processes and how this understanding will revolutionize the design of future buildings.
Part of the book series: Mechanical Engineering Series (MES)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- Thermodynamics undergraduate textbook
- Work and power
- first law of thermodynamics
- second law of thermodynamics
- Energy efficiency
- Entropy
- Mechanical equivalent of heat
- Mechanical theory of heat
- Heat extraction
- Thermally activated building systems (TABS)
- Homeostasis in buildings
- Mechanical homeostasis
- Building thermal mass requirement
About this book
Professor Wang presents a coherent theory-structure of thermodynamics and clarifies the meaning of heat and the definition of energy in a manner that is both scientifically rigorous and engaging, and explains contemporary understanding of engineering thermodynamics in continuum of its historical evolution. The textbook reinforces students’ grasp of concepts with end-of-chapter problems and provides a historical background of pioneering work by Black, Laplace, Carnot, Joule, Thomson, Clausius, Maxwell, Planck, Gibbs, Poincare and Prigogine.
Developed primarily as a core text for graduate students in engineering programs, and as reference for professional engineers, this book maximizes readers’ understanding and shines a light on new horizons for our energy future.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Treatise of Heat and Energy
Authors: Lin-Shu Wang
Series Title: Mechanical Engineering Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05746-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05745-9Published: 18 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05746-6Published: 07 December 2019
Series ISSN: 0941-5122
Series E-ISSN: 2192-063X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 301
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Thermodynamics, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering, Energy Efficiency