Advanced Irreversible Thermodynamics

Topics are the entropy production rates for bulk and surface systems, flux equations in systems with gradients in temperature, concentration and pressure and connected issues. Emphasis is made on transport across surfaces, in the absence of equilibrium. The basic premises of the theory is are discussed, and so is the coupling between interacting fluxes. Coupling coefficients can be large at interfaces. The theory is applied to a number of examples according to the interests of the students, evaporation, electrochemistry, fuel cells, impedance measurements.

To make students able to put up the entropy production rate for their own problem and use it to define dynamic behaviour of their system.

The course is taught every second year, next time in the spring 2013 (in English if wanted by participants). Lectures (2 hours per week) and exercises (3 hours per week).