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Hippolyte Carnot n'a ni la gloire de son père, « l'organisateur de la victoire » de l'An II, ni le renom de son frère, l'inventeur de la thermodynamique, ni le destin tragique de son fils, président de la République assassiné en 1894. Il reste méconnu alors que sa vie couvre presque tout un siècle (1801-1888) et que son œuvre et son influence sont considérables. À travers révolutions, coups d'État, monarchies, empires ou républiques, guerres et procès, ce ministre de l'Instruction publique de 1848, ami de Victor Hugo et de Jules Ferry, est en effet un bâtisseur et un inspirateur. Il participe à tous les combats pour les libertés publiques et privées, jette les bases de la formation des professeurs et de l'école gratuite et obligatoire, y compris maternelle, crée l'ancêtre de l'ENA et défend les causes les plus avancées (scolarisation des filles, suffrage universel, lutte contre l'esclavage et abolition de la peine de mort). Philosophe et journaliste, mémorialiste et ministre, franc-maçon et croyant, exilé politique et député, sénateur et membre de l'Académie, il incarne le xixe siècle. La redécouverte d'une grande figure de notre panthéon républicain.
Education ministers --- Education and state --- Education --- History --- Carnot, H. --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Education secretaries --- Ministers of education --- Secretaries of education --- Cabinet officers --- Government policy --- Carnot, Hippolyte, --- Carnot, --- politique --- République --- franc-maçon
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This second Special Issue connects both the fundamental and application aspects of thermomechanical machines and processes. Among them, engines have the largest place (Diesel, Lenoir, Brayton, Stirling), even if their environmental aspects are questionable for the future. Mechanical and chemical processes as well as quantum processes that could be important in the near future are considered from a thermodynamical point of view as well as for applications and their relevance to quantum thermodynamics. New insights are reported regarding more classical approaches: Finite Time Thermodynamics F.T.T.; Finite Speed thermodynamics F.S.T.; Finite Dimensions Optimal Thermodynamics F.D.O.T. The evolution of the research resulting from this second Special Issue ranges from basic cycles to complex systems and the development of various new branches of thermodynamics.
combined cycle --- inverse Brayton cycle --- regenerative Brayton cycle --- power output --- thermal efficiency --- finite time thermodynamics --- closed simple Brayton cycle --- power density --- ecological function --- multi-objective optimization --- quantum thermodynamics --- quantum circuit --- open quantum system --- isothermal process --- IBM quantum computer --- Stirling refrigerator --- thermodynamic analysis --- numerical model --- imperfect regeneration --- irreversible Lenoir cycle --- cycle power --- heat conductance distribution --- performance optimization --- irreversible Carnot engine --- optimization --- thermodynamics with finite speed --- internal and external irreversibilities --- entropy generation calculation --- thermodynamics in finite time --- irreversible Diesel cycle --- Carnot cycle --- Carnot efficiency --- thermal entropy --- chemical entropy --- mechanical entropy --- thermal exergy --- chemical exergy --- mechanical exergy --- metabolic reactions --- Carnot engine --- Chambadal model --- entropy production action --- efficiency at maximum power --- n/a
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This book results from a Special Issue related to the latest progress in the thermodynamics of machines systems and processes since the premonitory work of Carnot. Carnot invented his famous cycle and generalized the efficiency concept for thermo-mechanical engines. Since that time, research progressed from the equilibrium approach to the irreversible situation that represents the general case. This book illustrates the present state-of-the-art advances after one or two centuries of consideration regarding applications and fundamental aspects. The research is moving fast in the direction of economic and environmental aspects. This will probably continue during the coming years. This book mainly highlights the recent focus on the maximum power of engines, as well as the corresponding first law efficiency upper bounds.
thermodynamics --- optimization --- entropy analysis --- Carnot engine --- modelling with time durations --- steady-state modelling --- transient conditions --- converter irreversibility --- sequential optimization --- Finite physical Dimensions Optimal Thermodynamics --- global efficiency --- energy efficiency --- heat engine --- heat pump --- utilization --- Carnot efficiency --- comparison --- thermal system --- cycle analysis --- second law of thermodynamics --- Clausius Statement --- theorem of the equivalence of transformations --- linear irreversible thermodynamics --- maximum power output --- maximum ecological Function --- maximum efficient power function --- enzymatic reaction model --- ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) --- plate heat exchanger --- finite-time thermodynamics --- heat transfer entropy --- entropy production --- new efficiency limits --- two-stage LNG compressor --- energy losses --- exergy destruction --- exergy efficiency --- Stirling cycle --- refrigerator --- heat exchanger --- second law --- n/a
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Dr. Bernard H. Lavenda has written A New Perspective on Thermodynamics to combine an old look at thermodynamics with a new foundation. The book presents a historical perspective, which unravels the current presentation of thermodynamics found in standard texts, and which emphasizes the fundamental role that Carnot played in the development of thermodynamics. A New Perspective on Thermodynamics will: Chronologically unravel the development of the principles of thermodynamics and how they were conceived by their discoverers Bring the theory of thermodynamics up to the present time and indicate areas of further development with the union of information theory and the theory of means and their inequalities. New areas include nonextensive thermodynamics, the thermodynamics of coding theory, multifractals, and strange attractors. Reintroduce important, yet nearly forgotten, teachings of N.L. Sardi Carnot Highlight conceptual flaws in timely topics such as endoreversible engines, finite-time thermodynamics, geometrization of thermodynamics, and nonequilibrium work from equilibrium free energy differences. Dr. Bernard H. Lavenda is Professor of Physical Chemistry at Universita degli Studi di Camerino, Italy. He is recipient of the 2009 Telesio-Galeli Prize in Physics for his work on irreversible thermodynamics.
Carnot, Sadi, 1796-1832. --- Heat-engines -- History. --- Thermodynamics -- History. --- Thermodynamics -- Research -- History. --- Thermodynamics. --- Thermodynamics --- Physics --- Mathematics --- Mathematical Statistics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Research --- History. --- Mathematics. --- Energy. --- Probabilities. --- Physics. --- Statistical physics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. --- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. --- Energy, general. --- Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Mechanics --- Heat --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory
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The thematic range of this book is wide and can loosely be described as polydispersive. Figuratively, it resembles a polynuclear path of yielding (poly)crystals. Such path can be taken when looking at it from the first side. However, a closer inspection of the book’s contents gives rise to a much more monodispersive/single-crystal and compacted (than crudely expected) picture of the book’s contents presented to a potential reader. Namely, all contributions collected can be united under the common denominator of maximum-entropy and entropy production principles experienced by both classical and quantum systems in (non)equilibrium conditions. The proposed order of presenting the material commences with properly subordinated classical systems (seven contributions) and ends up with three remaining quantum systems, presented by the chapters’ authors. The overarching editorial makes the presentation of the wide-range material self-contained and compact, irrespective of whether comprehending it from classical or quantum physical viewpoints.
Research & information: general --- Physics --- multistability --- ergodicity --- Brownian motion --- tilted periodic potential --- Lévy noise --- nonequilibrium thermodynamics --- active particles --- entropy production --- dissipative structures --- quantum entanglement --- linear entropy --- coherence --- purity of states --- concurrence --- three-qubit systems --- quantum graphs --- microwave networks --- Euler characteristic --- Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions --- II law of thermodynamics --- Carnot principle --- Kelvin principle --- Ostwald principle --- perpetuum mobile type III --- Clausius I and II principles --- formal implication --- model theory --- spherulites --- (poly)crystal formation --- complex growing phenomenon --- soft condensed matter --- physical kinetics --- anticoherence --- entanglement --- nonlinear systems --- human serum albumin --- hyaluronan --- conformational entropy --- dihedral angles --- frequency distribution --- epidemy --- compartmental models --- computer simulation --- SARS-CoV-2-like disease spreading --- chemical computing --- network --- oscillators --- top-down design --- Oregonator model --- Japanese flag problem --- n/a --- Lévy noise
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This book places thermodynamics on a system-theoretic foundation so as to harmonize it with classical mechanics. Using the highest standards of exposition and rigor, the authors develop a novel formulation of thermodynamics that can be viewed as a moderate-sized system theory as compared to statistical thermodynamics. This middle-ground theory involves deterministic large-scale dynamical system models that bridge the gap between classical and statistical thermodynamics. The authors' theory is motivated by the fact that a discipline as cardinal as thermodynamics--entrusted with some of the most perplexing secrets of our universe--demands far more than physical mathematics as its underpinning. Even though many great physicists, such as Archimedes, Newton, and Lagrange, have humbled us with their mathematically seamless eurekas over the centuries, this book suggests that a great many physicists and engineers who have developed the theory of thermodynamics seem to have forgotten that mathematics, when used rigorously, is the irrefutable pathway to truth. This book uses system theoretic ideas to bring coherence, clarity, and precision to an extremely important and poorly understood classical area of science.
Thermodynamics --- Differentiable dynamical systems. --- Differential dynamical systems --- Dynamical systems, Differentiable --- Dynamics, Differentiable --- Differential equations --- Global analysis (Mathematics) --- Topological dynamics --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Heat --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory --- Mathematics. --- Addition. --- Adiabatic process. --- Applied mathematics. --- Arthur Eddington. --- Asymmetry. --- Available energy (particle collision). --- Axiom. --- Balance equation. --- Banach space. --- Boltzmann's entropy formula. --- Brillouin scattering. --- Carnot cycle. --- Classical mechanics. --- Clausius (crater). --- Compact space. --- Conservation law. --- Conservation of energy. --- Constant of integration. --- Continuous function (set theory). --- Continuous function. --- Control theory. --- Deformation (mechanics). --- Derivative. --- Diathermal wall. --- Diffeomorphism. --- Differentiable function. --- Diffusion process. --- Dimension (vector space). --- Dimension. --- Dissipation. --- Dot product. --- Dynamical system. --- Emergence. --- Energy density. --- Energy level. --- Energy storage. --- Energy. --- Entropy. --- Equation. --- Equations of motion. --- Equilibrium point. --- Equilibrium thermodynamics. --- Equipartition theorem. --- Existential quantification. --- First law of thermodynamics. --- Hamiltonian mechanics. --- Heat capacity. --- Heat death of the universe. --- Heat flux. --- Heat transfer. --- Homeomorphism. --- Hydrogen atom. --- Ideal gas. --- Inequality (mathematics). --- Infimum and supremum. --- Infinitesimal. --- Initial condition. --- Instant. --- Internal energy. --- Irreversible process. --- Isolated system. --- Kinetic theory of gases. --- Laws of thermodynamics. --- Linear dynamical system. --- Lipschitz continuity. --- Local boundedness. --- Lyapunov function. --- Lyapunov stability. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Molecule. --- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics. --- Operator norm. --- Probability. --- Quantity. --- Reversible process (thermodynamics). --- Second law of thermodynamics. --- Semi-infinite. --- Smoothness. --- State variable. --- State-space representation. --- Statistical mechanics. --- Steady state. --- Summation. --- Supply (economics). --- Systems theory. --- Temperature. --- Theorem. --- Theoretical physics. --- Theory. --- Thermal conduction. --- Thermal equilibrium. --- Thermodynamic equilibrium. --- Thermodynamic process. --- Thermodynamic state. --- Thermodynamic system. --- Thermodynamic temperature. --- Thermodynamics. --- Time evolution. --- Zeroth law of thermodynamics.
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About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the integrity of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory, and computer science--and linkages have been established between Maxwell's demon and each of these disciplines. The demon's seductive quality makes it appealing to physical scientists, engineers, computer scientists, biologists, psychologists, and historians and philosophers of science. Until now its important source material has been scattered throughout diverse journals.This book brings under one cover twenty-five reprints, including seminal works by Maxwell and William Thomson; historical reviews by Martin Klein, Edward Daub, and Peter Heimann; information theoretic contributions by Leo Szilard, Leon Brillouin, Dennis Gabor, and Jerome Rothstein; and innovations by Rolf Landauer and Charles Bennett illustrating linkages with the limits of computation. An introductory chapter summarizes the demon's life, from Maxwell's illustration of the second law's statistical nature to the most recent "exorcism" of the demon based on a need periodically to erase its memory. An annotated chronological bibliography is included.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Thermodynamics. --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Heat --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory --- Maxwell's demon. --- Adiabatic process. --- Automaton. --- Available energy (particle collision). --- Billiard-ball computer. --- Black hole information paradox. --- Black hole thermodynamics. --- Black-body radiation. --- Boltzmann's entropy formula. --- Boyle's law. --- Calculation. --- Carnot's theorem (thermodynamics). --- Catalysis. --- Chaos theory. --- Computation. --- Copying. --- Creation and annihilation operators. --- Digital physics. --- Dissipation. --- Distribution law. --- Domain wall. --- EPR paradox. --- Energy level. --- Entropy of mixing. --- Entropy. --- Exchange interaction. --- Expectation value (quantum mechanics). --- Extrapolation. --- Fair coin. --- Fermi–Dirac statistics. --- Gibbs free energy. --- Gibbs paradox. --- Guessing. --- Halting problem. --- Hamiltonian mechanics. --- Heat engine. --- Heat. --- Helmholtz free energy. --- Ideal gas. --- Idealization. --- Information theory. --- Instant. --- Internal energy. --- Irreversible process. --- James Prescott Joule. --- Johnson–Nyquist noise. --- Kinetic theory of gases. --- Laws of thermodynamics. --- Least squares. --- Loschmidt's paradox. --- Ludwig Boltzmann. --- Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution. --- Mean free path. --- Measurement. --- Mechanical equivalent of heat. --- Microscopic reversibility. --- Molecule. --- Negative temperature. --- Negentropy. --- Newton's law of universal gravitation. --- Nitrous oxide. --- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics. --- Old quantum theory. --- Particle in a box. --- Perpetual motion. --- Photon. --- Probability. --- Quantity. --- Quantum limit. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Rectangular potential barrier. --- Result. --- Reversible computing. --- Reversible process (thermodynamics). --- Richard Feynman. --- Rolf Landauer. --- Rudolf Clausius. --- Scattering. --- Schrödinger equation. --- Second law of thermodynamics. --- Self-information. --- Spontaneous process. --- Standard state. --- Statistical mechanics. --- Superselection. --- Temperature. --- Theory of heat. --- Theory. --- Thermally isolated system. --- Thermodynamic equilibrium. --- Thermodynamic system. --- Thought experiment. --- Turing machine. --- Ultimate fate of the universe. --- Uncertainty principle. --- Unitarity (physics). --- Van der Waals force. --- Wave function collapse. --- Work output.
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The 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 non-negligible, i.e., they must come to completion in a finite time. What the theory makes explicit is “the cost of haste”. Intuitively, it is quite obvious that you drive your car differently if you want to reach your destination as quickly as possible as opposed to the case when you are running out of gas. Finite-time thermodynamics quantifies such opposing requirements and may provide the optimal control to achieve the best compromise. The theory was initially developed for heat engines (steam, Otto, Stirling, a.o.) and for refrigerators, but it has by now evolved into essentially all areas of dynamic systems from the most abstract ones to the most practical ones. The present collection shows some fascinating current examples.
Economics, finance, business & management --- macroentropy --- microentropy --- endoreversible engine --- reversible computing --- Landauer’s principle --- piston motion optimization --- endoreversible thermodynamics --- stirling engine --- irreversibility --- power --- efficiency --- optimization --- generalized radiative heat transfer law --- optimal motion path --- maximum work output --- elimination method --- finite time thermodynamics --- thermodynamics --- economics --- optimal processes --- n/a --- averaged --- heat transfer --- cyclic mode --- simulation --- modeling --- reconstruction --- nonequilibrium thermodynamics --- entropy production --- contact temperature --- quantum thermodynamics --- maximum power --- shortcut to adiabaticity --- quantum friction --- Otto cycle --- quantum engine --- quantum refrigerator --- finite-time thermodynamics --- sulfuric acid decomposition --- tubular plug-flow reactor --- entropy generation rate --- SO2 yield --- multi-objective optimization --- optimal control --- thermodynamic cycles --- thermodynamic length --- hydrogen atom --- nano-size engines --- a-thermal cycle --- heat engines --- cooling --- very long timescales --- slow time --- ideal gas law --- new and modified variables --- Silicon–Germanium alloys --- minimum of thermal conductivity --- efficiency of thermoelectric systems --- minimal energy dissipation --- radiative energy transfer --- radiative entropy transfer --- two-stream grey atmosphere --- energy flux density --- entropy flux density --- generalized winds --- conservatively perturbed equilibrium --- extreme value --- momentary equilibrium --- information geometry of thermodynamics --- thermodynamic curvature --- critical phenomena --- binary fluids --- van der Waals equation --- quantum heat engine --- carnot cycle --- otto cycle --- multiobjective optimization --- Pareto front --- stability --- maximum power regime --- entropy behavior --- biophysics --- biochemistry --- dynamical systems --- diversity --- complexity --- path information --- calorimetry --- entropy flow --- biological communities --- reacting systems --- Landauer's principle --- Silicon-Germanium alloys
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