"Version: 20170801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Some general aspects of heat conduction -- 1.2. Solution of the self-heating problem -- 1.3. Modeling heating effects in state of the art devices with the commercial tool SILVACO2. Current state of the art…
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Microscopic and macroscopic viewpoints -- 1.2. Solids, liquids, and gases -- 1.3. Important characteristics of substances in various states -- 1.4. System and surroundings -- 1.5. Summary2. Enthalpy and heat capacity -- 2.1. Enthalpy -- 2.2. Heat capacity of a substance -- 2.3. Flow work and enthal…
"Version: 20230701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Environmental hazards and extreme-temperature electronics. Sub-part IA. Environmental hazards. 1. Introduction and overview -- 1.1. Reasons for moving away from normal practices in electronics -- 1.2. Organization of the book -- 1.3. Temperature effects -- 1.4. Harsh environment effects -- 1.5. Discussion and conc…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction to district heating and cooling. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is district heating and cooling? -- 1.2. Why use DH/C? -- 1.3. Development of district heating -- 1.4. Development of district cooling2. Key features of DH/C systems -- 2.1. Component parts of a DH system -- 2.2. Component parts of a DC sys…
"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Principles of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. 1. The concept of a thermodynamic system -- 1.1. Composition of a thermodynamic system -- 1.2. Fundamental variables and work -- 1.3. Entropy and absolute temperature -- 1.4. The fluxes and thermodynamic forces -- 1.5. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics2. The characteristi…
"Version: 20230401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Entropy counts : universal nature of the statistical entropy -- 1.1. Entropy, weight, probability, and information -- 1.2. A combinatorial example -- 1.3. Entropy and the Second Law -- 1.4. Nature of probability and randomness2. Variational formulation of equilibrium thermodynamics via entropy and free energy -- 2.1. E…
"Version: 20200301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.15. Recent advances in frosting for heat transfer applications -- 15.1. Introduction -- 15.2. Classical condensation frosting theory -- 15.3. Anti-frosting superhydrophobic surfaces -- 15.4. Fabrication of superhydrophobic surfaces -- 15.5. Durability/robustness/fouling of superhydrophobic anti-frosting surfaces -- 15.6. …
"Version: 20200301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fundamentals of thermoacoustic tomography -- 1.1. Thermoacoustic effect -- 1.2. Image reconstruction methods -- 1.3. Instrumentation2. Quantitative thermoacoustic tomography -- 2.1. Recovery of tissue conductivity -- 2.2. Simultaneous recovery of absorbed microwave energy density and acoustic velocity -- 2.3. Simultane…
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Entropy counts -- 1.1. Entropy, weight, probability, and information -- 1.2. A combinatorial example -- 1.3. Entropy and the second law -- 1.4. Nature of probability and randomness2. Entropy varies -- 2.1. Entropy of an isolated system -- 2.2. Heat reservoir and the Helmholtz free energy -- 2.3. Various reservoirs -- 2…
"Version: 20210601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.section I. Classical thermodynamics. 1. Introduction and background -- 1.1. Thermodynamics : what is it all about? -- 1.2. Thermodynamics : a very brief introduction -- 1.3. Dimensions and units -- 1.4. Thermodynamic systems -- 1.5. Temperature -- 1.6. Temperature scales -- 1.7. Zeroth law of thermodynamics -- 1.8. Therma…