This book provides the foundations of analytical thermodynamics for graduate level. The content is based on the author’s lecture notes developed over 30 years of academic teaching. It aims to present thermodynamics to the readers as easy to understand as possible, being suitable for professors teaching advanced thermodynamics or graduate students learning thermodynamics. The chapters include the basics of analytical thermodynamics, modelling of homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, thermodynamics of interfaces and three-phase contact lines and the Second Law in engineering thermodynamics.

Table of Contents

1 Basics of Analytical Thermodynamics

2 Modelling Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Systems

3 Thermodynamics of Interfaces and Three-Phase Contact Lines

4 Second Law of Engineering Thermodynamics

About the Author

Dongqing Li obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of Toronto in 1991. In 1993, Dr. Li joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, where he obtained tenure in 1997 and was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1999. He later joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, in 2000 as a tenured full professor. From October 2005 to August 2008, Dr. Li was the H. Fort Flowers Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, USA. Since September 2008, Dr. Li has joined the University of Waterloo as a tenured full professor, and he was the Canada Research Chair in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics from 2008 to 2013.