"Recent Advances in Thermo and Fluid Dynamics" ed. by Mofid Gorji-Bandpy

This book aims to present novel ideas that are crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries and introducing a wide spectrum of viewpoints and approaches in applied thermodynamics of the third millennium. The book will be of interest to those working in the fields of propulsion systems, power generation systems, chemical industry, quantum systems, refrigeration, fluid flow, combustion, and other phenomena.

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics concerned with heat and temperature and their relation to energy and work. It defines macroscopic variables, such as internal energy, entropy, and pressure, that partly describe a body of matter or radiation. It states that the behavior of these variables is subject to general constraints that are common to all materials, not to the peculiar properties of particular materials.

These general constraints are expressed in the three laws of thermodynamics which had a deep influence on the development of physics and chemistry.

Contents
Preface
1 Prediction of Solubility of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients in Single Solvents and Their Mixtures — Solvent Screening
2 Dynamics of Droplets
3 Nonequilibrium Thermodynamic and Quantum Model of a Damped Oscillator
4 Linear Approximation of Efficiency for Similar Non- Endoreversible Cycles to the Carnot Cycle
5 Thermal Hysteresis Due to the Structural Phase Transitions in Magnetization for Core-Surface Nanoparticles
6 Information Thermodynamics and Halting Problem
7 Thermodynamics of Coral Diversity — Diversity Index of CoralDistributions in Amitori Bay, Iriomote Island, Japan and Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
8 Thermodynamics of Abiotic Stress and Stress Tolerance of Cultivated Plants
9 The Planck Power – A Numerical Coincidence or a Fundamental Number in Cosmology?
10 Absolute Zero and Even Colder?
11 Foundation of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Based on Generalized Entropy