Advances in thermodynamics of the van der Waals fluid / David C Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, David C., author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 1.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 1]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Van der Waals forces.

Fluid dynamics.

Statistical mechanics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Distribution:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2014]

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2014]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

text file

Biography/History:

Dr. David C Johnston is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. He received his BA and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of California at San Diego, respectively. Prior to joining Iowa State University, he carried out research at the Corporate Research Laboratories of Exxon Research and Engineering Company in Annandale, NJ. His research area is experimental solid state physics, with an emphasis on the measurement and theoretical modeling of the electronic, magnetic, thermal and superconducting properties of solids. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a former Divisional Associate Editor of the journal Physical Review Letters.

Summary:

The van der Waals mean-field theory of fluids was formulated by van der Waals in 1873 and augmented by Maxwell in 1875. It is the first theory that predicts a phase transition from interactions between particles. However, the thermodynamic properties of fluids (gases or liquids) derived from the van der Waals equation of state and free energy have not been thoroughly studied previously. This book is a comprehensive exposition of the thermodynamic properties of the van der Waals fluid, which includes a review of past work together with presentation the author's recent extensive studies. The main goal of the book is to provide a graphical overview of the many interesting and diverse thermodynamic properties of the van der Waals fluid through plots of these properties versus various independent parameters. The data for these plots are obtained from formulas derived herein, some of which have previously appeared in the literature. Many results not amenable to graphical illustration are also included.

Contents:

Preface

Author biography

Introduction

Background and nomenclature : the ideal gas

van der Waals intermolecular interaction parameters

Thermodynamic variables and properties in terms of the van der Waals interaction parameters

Helmholtz free energy

Critical pressure, temperature and volume

Entropy, internal energy and heat capacity at constant volume

Pressure and enthalpy

Chemical potential

van der Waals equation of state, reduced variables and laws of corresponding states

van der Waals equation of state and reduced variables

Laws of corresponding states

Pressure versus volume and versus density isotherms

Influence of the van der Waals interactions on the pressure of the gas phase

Boyle temperature

Thermodynamic properties expressed in reduced variables

Equilibrium pressure-volume, temperature-volume and pressure-temperature phase diagrams

Pressure-volume phase diagram and Maxwell construction

Volume-temperature phase diagram

Lever rule

Pressure-temperature phase diagram

Lekner's parametric solution of the coexistence curve and associated properties

Thermodynamic behaviors on approaching the critical temperature from below

Thermodynamic behaviors for temperatures approaching zero

Coexisting liquid and gas densities, transition order parameter and temperature-density phase diagram

Latent heat and entropy of vaporization

Heat capacity at constant volume versus temperature within the liquid-gas coexistence region along an isochoric path

Static critical exponents

Heat capacity at constant volume

Pressure versus volume isotherm at the critical temperature

Critical chemical potential isotherm versus number density

Liquid-gas transition order parameter

Isothermal compressibility

Approach to the critical point along the critical isobar

Superheating and supercooling

Additional numerical calculations of thermodynamic properties

Isotherms versus density in the supercritical temperature region

Isobars versus temperature

11 Adiabatic free expansion and Joule-Thomson expansion

Adiabatic free expansion

Joule-Thomson expansion

Appendices

A. Tables of values

B. Formulas for the discontinuities in isothermal compressibility, thermal expansion and heat capacity versus temperature at constant pressure on crossing the liquid-gas coexistence curve

C. Formula for the heat capacity at constant volume in the coexistence region along the critical isochore.

Notes:

"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 8, 2014).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781627055321

OCLC:

892333873

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