Search results for “[subject: mechanics-thermodynamics]”

• Author(s): Andrea Puglisi • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralA challenging frontier in modern statistical physics concerns systems with a small number of degrees of freedom, far from the thermodynamic limit. Beyon...

• Author(s): Michel Feidt • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis second Special Issue connects both the fundamental and application aspects of thermomechanical machines and processes. Among them, engines have the l...

• Author(s): Michel Feidt • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis book results from a Special Issue related to the latest progress in the thermodynamics of machines systems and processes since the premonitory work o...

• Author(s): Stephen Berry • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: DemographyThe theory around the concept of finite time describes how processes of any nature can be optimized in situations when their rate is required to be no...

• Author(s): Gabriele de Chiara • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis Special Issue contains novel results in the area of out-of-equilibrium classical and quantum thermodynamics. Contributions are from different a...

• Author(s): José S. Urieta | Ana M. Mainar • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThis Reprint presents the second edition of "Macroscopic and Microscopic Thermodynamics: From Fundamentals to Present Ap...

• Author(s): Róbert Kovács • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralNon-equilibrium thermodynamics is a relatively new field of research, and one which is also becoming increasingly important in engineering applications. ...

• Author(s): Ke Yan • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralBearings are currently the most widely used mechanical component. In the process of high-speed and heavy-load operation, friction and heat generate between the ...

• Author(s): Bjarne Andresen | Peter Salamon • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: Physics - GeneralStarting with the personal account by Boye Ahlborn and Frank Curzon about how their pivotal paper came about in 1975, this Re...

• Author(s): Santi Prestipino • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Liquids and Crystals" that was published in Entropy (...

• Author(s): Signe Kjelstrup • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis Special Issue concerns the development of a theory for energy conversion on the nanoscale, namely, nanothermodynamics. The theory has been applied...

• Author(s): Muhammad Mahaba Khan • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThe Second International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, ICAME-22, was held on 25th August, 2022 at the Mechanical Engineering D...

• Author(s): Artur J. Jaworski • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralFluid flow and heat transfer processes play an important role in many areas of science and engineering, from the planetary scale (e.g., influencing w...

• Author(s): Róbert Kovács • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralNonequilibrium statistical mechanics has a long history featuring diverse aspects. It has been a major research field in physics and will remain so in th...

• Author(s): Muhammad Mahabat Khan • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThe 3rd International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering 2023 (ICAME-23) was organized on 24th August 2023 by the Department of Mec...

• Author(s): Vincenzo Costanzo • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis book results from a Special Issue related to the latest progress in the thermodynamics of machines systems and processes since the premonitory w...

• Author(s): Christophe Goupil • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: Chemistry - GeneralBeyond its identification with the second law of thermodynamics, entropy is a formidable tool for describing systems in their relationshi...

• Author(s): Dan Zhao • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThermal fluid dynamics and their control are critical scientific issues in the field of aerospace, especially for the propulsion system, in which the working ...

• Author(s): Cemal Basaran • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralTraditionally fatigue, fracture, damage mechanics are predictions are based on empirical curve fitting models based on experimental data. However, when e...

• Author(s): Daniel Flórez-Orrego • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis reprint, entitled "Thermodynamic Optimization of Industrial Energy Systems", explores the application of thermodynamic principles and process...

• Author(s): Bjørn H. Hjertager • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis book contains the successful submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of "Engineering Fluid Dynamics". The topic of engin...

• Author(s): Ramoshweu Solomon Lebelo • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: Physics - GeneralThe reprint contains 19 articles that have been accepted and published in the Special Issue "Analysis and Applications of Mathematic...

• Author(s): Leonid Plotnikov • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralToday, it is difficult to imagine the development of energy and mechanical engineering without the use of modern mathematical approaches. The active d...

• Author(s): Vladimir Serdyukov • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralBoiling is one of the most effective heat removal regimes, and is thus widely used in various industries and technologies, including, but not limite...

• Author(s): Jian Liu • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralPropulsion systems based on chemical reaction principles are still the most widely used thrust devices for aircrafts, drawing a lot of research attention. Whe...

• Author(s): XI Chen • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: MechanicalThis Reprint is devoted to recent advances in the analysis and applications of fluid mechanics based on symmetry/asymmetry. In recent years, the growing sig...

• Author(s): Adam Gadomski • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis book summarizes the efforts of ten papers collected by the Special Issue "Condensed-Matter-Principia Based Information & Statistical Measures: F...

• Author(s): Sebastian A. Altmeyer • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: Computer ScienceThe present Reprint contains 8 articles accepted and published in the Special Issue "Numerical Simulation and Methods in Computational F...

• Author(s): Stanislav Boldyryev | Bohong Wang | Timothy Gordon Walmsley • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis Reprint showcases the latest breakthroughs in the design and optimization of heat exchanger networks a...

• Author(s): Edward Bormashenko • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: Computer ScienceThe rapid development of computers has stimulated growing interest in the physical foundations of computation. This interest arises from bo...

• Author(s): Antonio M. Scarfone | Sergio Luiz E. F. Da Silva • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: Physics - GeneralEntropy is publishing a Special Issue to celebrate the 180th anniversary of Ludwig Boltzmann's birth, commem...

• Author(s): Pouyan Talebizadeh Sardari • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis research topic aims at enterprise-wide modeling and optimization (EWMO) through the development and application of integrated modeling,...

• Author(s): Jesús María Blanco • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThe reprint collects research papers on mathematical and numerical modelling in fluid dynamics, discusses latest research developments in areas of f...

• Author(s): Falah Alobaid • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: Mechanics - ThermodynamicsIt is widely believed that a large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions originated anthropogenically from the use of fossil fuels wi...

• Author(s): Satoru Okamoto • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralA heat pump system can produce an amount of heat energy that is greater than the amount of energy used to run the heat pump system. Thus, a heat pump sy...

• Author(s): Andrea Lazzaretto • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThis Special Issue addresses the general problem of a proper match between the demands of energy users and the units for energy conversion and storag...