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Showing 1 to 20 of 937 for “"Thermodynamics."”.
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Covariant thermodynamics & relativity
This thesis deals with the dynamics of irreversible processes within the context of the general theory of relativity. In particular, we address the problem of the `infinite' speed of propagation of thermal disturbances in a dissipative fluid. Although this problem is not new, its best known …
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Thermodynamics of lattice QCD
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Thermodynamics of geologic fluids
Fluids play a vital role in essentially all geologic environments and processes, and are the principal media of heat and mass transfer in the Earth. The properties of geologic fluids can be diverse, as fluids occur at conditions ranging from ambient temperatures and pressures at Earth's surface, to …
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Statistical thermodynamics of virus assembly
Experiments show that MgSO4 salt has a non-monotonic effect as a function of MgSO4 concentration on the ejection of DNA from bacteriophage lambda. There is a concentration, N0, at which the minimum amount of DNA is ejected. At lower or higher concentrations, more DNA is ejected. We propose that …
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Thermodynamics of 5-flavor QCD
This thesis investigates the chiral phase transition in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) with five mass degenerate quark flavors. After performing lattice QCD simulations, I discuss measurements of the chiral condensate at small masses and classify the chiral phase transition. The data analysis is done …
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Advances in Computational Solvation Thermodynamics
… solvation from molecular simulations. Solvation thermodynamics of model compounds provides quantitative measurements used to analyze the stability of protein conformations in aqueous milieus. Solvation free energies govern the favorability of the solvation process, while entropy and enthalpy …
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SPECIAL APPLICATIONS OF IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS
… and applications in the field of Irreversible Thermodynamics which enables one to efficiently treat phenomena that are spatially and temporally non-equilibrium ones, and therefore thermodynamically irreversible. The unavoidable facts that all industrial processes experience randomly distributed …
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New results in extended thermodynamics
… of this thesis lays in the context of Extended Thermodynamics. The classical methodology to solve the system of balance equations, in E.T., leads to difficult calculations. Recently a new methodology has been proposed to overcome these difficulties and to have more elegant equations, easier to …
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Molecular Thermodynamics of Polar Reactions
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Thermodynamics of Biological Active Matter
… and give a few examples of other aspects of thermodynamics we could learn from active matter.
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Thermodynamics of Micellar Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
… cohesion. These fundamental studies of the thermodynamics of micellar morphologies in solvated amphiphiles provide insights into the general underlying principles which stabilize these complex packings of soft reconfigurable particles.
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Thermodynamics properties of crystals containing imperfections
Using thermodynamics and elasticity theory, a unified treatment of changes in the properties of crystals containing the major types of defects is given. Some previously derived results are recovered in the present calculations, such as the formula for volume changes of self-stressed media derived …
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Quantum information and thermodynamics of general relativity
We treat an Unruh-DeWitt detector as an open quantum system, with a quantum field playing the role of the environment, and evaluate the response of a uniformly accelerated detector for different types of interaction between the detector and the field. We derive the evolution equations for the …
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Thermodynamics of Ligand Binding to Glutamate Dehydrogenase
The role of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) in disease has been exhibited in congenital hyperinsulinism, specifically, hyperinsulinism/hyperammonemia syndrome (HHS). GDH catalyzes the reversible deamination of glutamate to 2-oxoglutarate. Mutations in GDH can lead to GDH over activity, causing …
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Clathration by diol hosts : thermodynamics and structure
Inclusion properties of the following seven diol host compounds were investigated: Host 1 9,9'-bis(9,91-dihydroxy-fluorene) Host 2 1, 1'-binaphthyl-2,2'-bis( diphenylhydroxymethyl) Host 3 2,2'-bis(9-hydroxy-9-fluorenyl)biphenyl Host 4 trans-9, 10-dihydroxy-9,10-diphenyl-9, 10-dihydroanthracene Host …
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Structure and thermodynamics of Diol inclusion compounds
This work is predominantly concerned with the structural analysis of the coordinatoclathrates formed by the host compound trans-9,10-dihydroxy-9,10-diphenyl- 9,10-dihydroanthracene (1) with compounds containing neutral nitrogen atoms (Lewis bases). The structures of inclusion compounds with two …
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Simulations of carbohydrate conformational dynamics and thermodynamics
In this thesis, free energy calculations are employed to establish the conformation freedom of selected carbohydrates. The focus is on the biologically important (1-4)-linked glucans, although the α(1-1) α and α(1-6) linkages are also investigated. Two principal types of potential of mean force …
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