THERMODYNAMICS – KINETICS OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján Thermodynamics – Kinetics of Dynamic Systems Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. 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ISBN 978-953-307-627-0 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface IX Chapter 1 Some Thermodynamic Problems in Continuum Mechanics 1 Zhen-Bang Kuang Chapter 2 First Principles of Prediction of Thermodynamic Properties 21 Hélio F. Dos Santos and Wagner B. De Almeida Chapter 3 Modeling and Simulation for Steady State and Transient Pipe Flow of Condensate Gas 65 Li Changjun, Jia Wenlong and Wu Xia Chapter 4 Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics in the Presence of Strong Gravity 85 Hiromi Saida Chapter 5 Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Protein Folding 111 Hongxing Lei and Yong Duan Chapter 6 Closing the Gap Between Nano- and Macroscale: Atomic Interactions vs. Macroscopic Materials Behavior 129 T. Böhme, T. Hammerschmidt, R. Drautz and T. Pretorius Chapter 7 Applications of Equations of State in the Oil and Gas Industry 165 Ibrahim Ashour, Nabeel Al-Rawahi, Amin Fatemi and Gholamreza Vakili-Nezhaad Chapter 8 Shock Structure in the Mixture of Gases: Stability and Bifurcation of Equilibria 179 Srboljub Simić Chapter 9 Chromia Evaporation in Advanced Ultra-Supercritical Steam Boilers and Turbines 205 Gordon R. Holcomb VI Contents Chapter 10 Thermohydrodynamics: Where Do We Stand? 227 L. S. García–Colín, J. I. Jiménez–Aquino and F. J. Uribe Chapter 11 Calorimetric Investigations of Non-Viral DNA Transfection Systems 255 Tranum Kaur, Naser Tavakoli, Roderick Slavcev and Shawn Wettig Chapter 12 Time Evolution of a Modified Feynman Ratchet with Velocity-Dependent Fluctuations and the Second Law of Thermodynamics 277 Jack Denur Chapter 13 Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Adsorption Properties of Some Biomolecules onto Mineral Surfaces 315 Özkan Demirbaş and Mahir Alkan Chapter 14 Irreversible Thermodynamics and Modelling of Random Media 331 Roland Borghi Chapter 15 Thermodynamic Approach for Amorphous Alloys from Binary to Multicomponent Systems 357 Lai-Chang Zhang Chapter 16 Equilibria Governing the Membrane Insertion of Polypeptides and Their Interactions with Other Biomacromolecules 381 Aisenbrey Christopher and Bechinger Burkhard Preface Thermodynamics is one of the most exciting branches of physical chemistry which has greatly contributed to the modern science. Since its inception, great minds have built their theories of thermodynamics. One should name those of Sadi Carnot, Clapeyron Claussius, Maxwell, Boltzman, Bernoulli, Leibniz etc. Josiah Willard Gibbs had perhaps the greatest scientific influence on the development of thermodynamics. His attention was for some time focused on the study of the Watt steam engine. Analysing the balance of the machine, Gibbs began to develop a method for calculating the variables involved in the processes of chemical equilibrium. He deduced the phase rule which determines the degrees of freedom of a physicochemical system based on the number of system components and the number of phases. He also identified a new state function of thermodynamic system, the so-called free energy or Gibbs energy (G), which allows spontaneity and ensures a specific physicochemical process (such as a chemical reaction or a change of state) experienced by a system without interfering with the environment around it. The essential feature of thermodynamics and the difference between it and other branches of science is that it incorporates the concept of heat or thermal energy as an important part in the energy systems. The nature of heat was not always clear. Today we know that the random motion of molecules is the essence of heat. Some aspects of thermodynamics are so general and deep that they even deal with philosophical issues. These issues also deserve a deeper consideration, before tackling the technical details. The reason is a simple one - before one does anything, one must understand what they want. In the past, historians considered thermodynamics as a science that is isolated, but in recent years scientists have incorporated more friendly approach to it and have demonstrated a wide range of applications of thermodynamics. These four volumes of applied thermodynamics, gathered in an orderly manner, present a series of contributions by the finest scientists in the world and a wide range of applications of thermodynamics in various fields. These fields include the environmental science, mathematics, biology, fluid and the materials science. These four volumes of thermodynamics can be used in post-graduate courses for students and as reference books, since they are written in a language pleasing to the reader. X Preface They can also serve as a reference material for researchers to whom the thermodynamics is one of the area of interest. Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján Department of Chemistry University of the Andes Colombia [...]... 2011) Classical thermodynamics model exchanges of energy, work and heat based on the laws of thermodynamics The first law of thermodynamics is a principle of conservation of energy and defines a specific internal energy which is a state function of the system The second law of thermodynamics is a principle to explain the irreversibile phenomenon in nature The entropy of an isolated non-equilibrium system... rationality of these theories These theories should still be proved by experiments 5 References Christensen, R M, 2003, Theory of Viscoelasticity, Academic Press, New York De Groet, S R, 1952, Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes, North-Holland Publishing Company, 20 Thermodynamics – Kinetics of Dynamic Systems Green, A E, Lindsay, K A, 1972, Thermoelasticity, Journal of Elasticity, 2: 1-7 Gyarmati,... chemical potential and electromagnetic field g e g is the Helmholtz free energy 2 Thermodynamics – Kinetics of Dynamic Systems In this chapter two new problems in the continuum thermodynamics will be discussed The first is that in traditional continuum thermodynamics including the non-equilibrium theory the dynamic effect of the temperature is not fully considered When the temperature T is varied, the... of Elasticity, 2: 1-7 Gyarmati, I, 1970, Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Field theory and variational principles, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Springer-Verlag Kuang, Z-B, 1999, Some remarks on thermodynamic theory of viscous-elasto-plastic media, in IUTAM symposium on rheology of bodies with defects, 8 7-9 9, Ed By Wang, R., Kluwer Academic Publishers Kuang, Z-B, 2002, Nonlinear continuum mechanics, Shanghai... 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THERMODYNAMICS – KINETICS OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján Thermodynamics – Kinetics of Dynamic Systems Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján. Thermodynamics – Kinetics of Dynamic Systems 2 In this chapter two new problems in the continuum thermodynamics will be discussed. The first is that in traditional continuum thermodynamics. Classical thermodynamics model exchanges of energy, work and heat based on the laws of thermodynamics. The first law of thermodynamics is a principle of conservation of energy and defines a specific