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Advances in Thermodynamics of the van der Waals Fluid (Iop Concise Physics: A Morgan & Claypool Publication)

Advances in Thermodynamics of the van der Waals Fluid (Iop Concise Physics: A Morgan & Claypool Publication)

Current price: $79.95
Publication Date: September 1st, 2014
Publisher:
Morgan & Claypool
ISBN:
9781627055314
Pages:
118

Description

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 a presentation of the author's own recent extensive studies. The book provides readers with 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.

About the Author

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.