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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Nonequilibrium thermodynamics"”.
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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of porous electrodes for lithium-ion batteries
… well-established in the chemistry community to nonequilibrium thermodynamics and apply it to materials with phase separating electrodes. We demonstrate that, although it shares some characteristics with a commonly used phenomenological model, it makes distinct predictions which agree with …
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Statistical Kinetics and Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Driven Systems: Stochastic Methods and Applications to Single-Molecule Biophysics
… thesis, we analyze the statistical kinetics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics of driven biomolecular systems, with a particular emphasis on enzymatic processes. Specifically, we focus on kinetic methodology development; analyzing single-molecule fluctuations for mechanistic insight; examining the …
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Thermal Coefficients and their Relation to the Onsacer Coefficients
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics is a phenomenological theory of matter, which describes the behavior of a system due to differences within the system or between the system and its surroundings. These differences give rise to thermodynamic forces which can cause flows of quantities such as charge and …
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Stochastic congruence equations for spacetime fluctuations
… effects of curvature fluctuations on spacetime thermodynamics. This is done by examining the evolution equations for time-like and null congruences, and recasting them as stochastic differential equations. The purpose of viewing the congruence evolution equations as stochastic is in the spirit …
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Kinetics of Microbial Respiration
… derive a new rate law on the basis of nonlinear nonequilibrium thermodynamics and chemiosmotic theory. In this way, I am able to account for the effect of the thermodynamic driving force, the difference between the energy available in the environment and that saved by electron transport …
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Chemomechanical coupling and motor cycles of the molecular motor myosin V
… grounds. We utilize constraints arising from nonequilibrium thermodynamics to determine motor parameters and demonstrate that the motor behaviour is governed by several chemomechanical motor cycles. In addition, we investigate the functional dependence of stepping rates on force by deducing …
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Nonisothermal moisture transport in wood
… theoretical models, two of which are based on nonequilibrium thermodynamics (NET) and three on classical thermodynamics. All models require sorption isotherm and heat of sorption data; and in some cases, the activation energy for moisture transport through wood. Adsorption and desorption …
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Kinetic algorithms for non-equilibrium gas dynamics
… schemes have been developed for flows with nonequilibrium thermodynamics and chemistry. These schemes are derived from the Boltzmann equation with the resulting Euler schemes developed as moments of the discretized Boltzmann scheme with a locally Maxwellian velocity distribution. Application …
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Buoyancy-thermocapillary convection of volatile fluids in confined and sealed geometries
Convection in a layer of fluid with a free surface due to a combination of thermocapillary stresses and buoyancy is a classic problem of fluid mechanics. It has attracted increasing attentions recently due to its relevance for two-phase cooling. Many of the modern thermal management technologies …