A system-theoretic foundation for thermodynamics: Energy flow, energy balance, energy equipartition, entropy, and ectropy.

hermodynamics is a physical branch of science that governs the thermal behavior of dynamical systems as simple as refrigerators io as complex as our expanding universe. The development of thermodynamics spawned out of steam tables and venous bleeding with many scientists and engineers expressing con...

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Main Authors: Haddad, Wassim., Chellaboina, VijaySekhar., Nersesov, Sergey.
Format: Villanova Faculty Authorship
Language:English
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://ezproxy.villanova.edu/login?url=https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:178280