Week |
Topic |
1 |
Basic Concepts in Thermodynamics |
2 |
Review of Equilibrium Thermodynamics
Elements of Statistical Thermodynamics |
3 |
The Gibbs Stability Theory |
4 |
Stability, Critical Phenomena and Configurational Heat Capacity |
5 |
Stability and Entropy Production |
6 |
Midterm |
7 |
Thermodynamic Theory of Fluctuations, Small Systems, Size –Dependent Properties, Nucleation |
8 |
The Foundations of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics |
9 |
Linear Phenomenological Laws, Onsager Reciprocal Relations and the Symmetry Principle |
10 |
Thermoelectric Phenomena, Diffusion, Heat Conduction in Anisotropic Solids |
11 |
Electrokinetic Phenomena and the Saxen Relations, Thermal Diffusion |
12 |
Far-from-Equilibrium Systems and and General Properties of Entropy Production |
13 |
Stability of Nonequilibrium Stationary States and Linear Stability Analysis |
14 |
Dissipative Structures |