Annual Summary Report Number 1,
Abstract
A new thermodynamic approach to the study of non-equilibrium flow is presented. In section one the essential concepts of thermodynamics are briefly restated in their modern formulation which is particularly useful in the present contest. In section two, a new series of thermodynamic potentials is introduced and their properties derived and discussed. In section three these potentials are applied to the analysis of non-equilibrium flow of binary gas mixtures. It is shown that their usefulness relies upon the possibilities of: (a) obtaining rather straight-forwardly, exact solutions of particular classes of non-equilibrium flows to which all known techniques are results of classical equilibrium fluid-dynamic can be easily extended; and (b) devising a number of promising approximate methods of solutions for general nonequilibrium flow fields. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1961
- Accession Number
- AD0265160
Entities
People
- L.g. Napolitano
Organizations
- University of Naples Federico II