"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: 20250901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Simple harmonic motion -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Definition of oscillation -- 1.3. Kinematic of simple harmonic oscillation (SHM) -- 1.4. Oscillation of a particle connected with a light spring -- 1.5. Relation between SHM and uniform circular motion (UCM) -- 1.6. Phase of a particle is SHM -- 1.7. Energy of an osci…
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction -- Background and nomenclature : the ideal gas -- van der Waals intermolecular interaction parametersThermodynamic variables and properties in terms of the van der Waals interaction parameters -- Helmholtz free energy -- Critical pressure, temperature and volume -- Entropy, inte…
"Version: 20240401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Activity-to-do : review of mathematics -- 1.2. Scientific method -- 1.3. Units -- 1.4. A few important concepts -- 1.5. Review of vectors -- 1.6. Speed versus velocity -- 1.7. Graphical representation of motion2. Sound, music and noise -- 2.1. What to know about sound, music o…
"Version: 202303"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Polar coordinates--a review -- 1.1. Fundamental definitions -- 1.2. Polar coordinate unit vectors -- 1.3. Time derivatives of polar coordinate unit vectors -- 1.4. Some useful integrals and expansions2. Dynamical quantities in polar coordinates -- 2.1. Position, velocity, acceleration, angular momentum, torque, and energ…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Overall introduction -- 1.1. Initial remarks -- 1.2. General features of turbulence -- 1.3. The major effects of turbulence -- 1.4. Why turbulence? Its source -- 1.5. Subject giants : C-L-M-H Navier and G G Stokes2. The governing equations -- 2.1. Limiting assumptions -- 2.2. Basic equations for laminar flows -- 2.3. Vor…
"Version: 202306"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Mathematical theory -- 2.1. Navier-Stokes equations -- 2.2. Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations -- 2.3. Turbulent Prandtl and Lewis numbers -- 2.4. Large Eddy Simulation -- 2.5. Inflow boundary conditions -- 2.6. Reynolds number dependence3. Equilibrium turbulent boundary layers -- 3.1. Incompres…
"Version: 20240401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Introduction : open-channel microfluidics and open microfluidics -- 1. The theoretical basis of capillarity -- 1.1. Introduction2. The Lucas-Washburn-Bosanquet approach -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The Bosanquet equation -- 2.3. Simplification : inertial and viscous regimes -- 2.4. The full Bosanquet solution -- 2.5. Corr…
"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…