Books by Keyword: Thermodynamics

Description: In this edition of "Advances in Mass and Thermal Transport in Engineering Materials V" diffusion phenomena in solids and liquids with a special focus on characterization of diffusion processes and corresponding experimental and numerical techniques is addressed. Diffusion and diffusion related processes play an important role in the development of advanced engineering materials and associated fields. In-depth knowledge of these different transport phenomena at many levels, from nano to macro, has therefore long attracted the attention of many researchers in materials science and engineering and related disciplines. The present topical volume captures an extensive cross-section of some of the recent progress in mass and thermal diffusion and related areas. Reflecting the enormous breadth of the field, the range of topics covered is accordingly very large.

Description: This publication is a compilation of brilliant research papers on different areas of clean energy presented at the 2nd meeting of the Africa International Conference on Clean Energy and Energy Storage (AICCEES 2024) held in September 2024 in Nigeria. AICCEES is a conference that seeks to facilitate the clean energy transition for Africa through research and knowledge sharing. Contributions to the conference covered different topics related to clean energy, such as hydrogen development in Africa, mini-grids and hydropower development, sustainable battery manufacturing in Africa, waste to energy, energy access and energy supply in Africa as well as renewable energy systems.

Description: Following the long tradition that started in 1987, the International Workshop on Positron Studies of Defects 2024 (PSD-24) will be held in Como, Italy, in the period from September the 1st to 6th, 2024. The aim of the workshop is to provide an opportunity for exchange of the latest results and scientific information concerning the positron interactions with solids and surfaces, the generation of slow positron beams and their applications.

Description: The special issue entitled “Transfer Phenomena in Fluid and Heat Flows XIV” of the Defect and Diffusion Forum continues a series of themed volumes. It presents a collection of articles associated with heat transfer and fluid flow phenomena. These topics can be understood in the broader sense as classical diffusion-related topics. The continuous need for improved machines, higher efficiencies, and more detailed and accurate theoretical modelling approaches makes it necessary to showcase the latest trends regularly with small intervals between the different volumes in this topical series.

Description: The 4^th International Scientific Conference of Alkafeel University "ISCKU2022" took place in Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf (Iraq), during December 20-21, 2022. ISCKU2022 is an annual conference that aims to bring participants together from academic, engineering, and government institutions worldwide to attend the conference, share field trial experiences and lessons with other enthusiasts, exchange novel ideas, discuss innovative fields and explore enabling technologies for a variety of applications. ISCKU2022 has been an active platform that provides participants with ample opportunities to establish research relationships, find partners for future collaboration, and develop opportunities for cooperation.

Description: This thematical issue presents to readers the results of engineering research on the strength of engineering materials and structural integrity, including numerical analysis of heat and mass transfer phenomena in engineering systems. The methods and research results in the area of materials physics and actual examples of applications of approaches of computational materials science are presented in a separate chapter. The publication will be helpful to specialists and researchers in materials science and machinery.

Description: Modern Engineering and Physics very often deal with the need for the design of natural or induced phenomena and processes and this is especially true in the problems involving heat transfer or fluid flows, often on the basis of a Thermodynamic viewpoint or of the Constructal Law. These broad areas of research are presented in this special issue of the journal "Defect and Diffusion Forum".

Description: This volume include theoretical, numerical and experimental developments, providing a self-contained major reference that is appealing to both the scientists and the engineers from area of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Description: The fascinating development of materials science which nowadays definitely involves the previously side-lined basic research within physics and chemistry has led to a number of innovative technologies of new materials. Despite many hopes and even successes in replacing traditional metallic materials by, for example, polymers or composites, the former materials are not only still widely used but are also making a 'come back'. As an example, intermetallic phases are enjoying an ever increasing interest as either functional or high-temperature structural materials and are prominent in this development. The present volume responds to the above trends by presenting a series of 7 extended articles devoted to diverse aspects of diffusion in intermetallic phases studied both experimentally and theoretically. The opening chapter gives an overview on the subject matter and focuses on binary intermetallics. It is followed by two works presenting results obtained by means of two particular promising experimental methods that allow the observation of diffusion phenomena in terms of individual acts of atomic migration. Diffusion in nanostructured intermetallic materials is addressed in the following two contributions which discuss a hot topic of diffusion-controlled solid-state reactions including self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS). Elucidation and interpretation of the experimental results is proposed in terms of analytical calculations, as well as of atomistic simulations. The final two chapters of the volume are devoted to two particular diffusion-controlled phenomena observed in Ni-Al - an intermetallic recently being of both technological and basic interest. The first of these presents a thorough theoretical study of thermotransport in liquid NiAl while the closing chapter reports on an atomistic simulation study of ordering phenomena in NiAl that is fundamentally controlled by vacancy thermodynamics.

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 3^rd International Conference on Process Engineering and Advanced Materials (ICPEAM2014), June 3-5, 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The 213 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Advanced Materials Development and Technologies,
Chapter 2: Catalysts, Inhibitors and Reaction Engineering,
Chapter 3: Technological Processes, Methodology and Industrial System Engineering,
Chapter 4: Separation Processes and Membranes, Thermodynamics,
Chapter 5: Biomaterials and Technologies, Environmental Engineering