A Simple Method to Reduce Thermodynamic Derivatives by Computer

2014/01/09 by Jacques H. H. Perk, Perk, Jacques H. H.
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Nuclear reactor physics and engineering #Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1401.7728

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Abstract

Studies in thermodynamics often require the reduction of some first or second order partial derivatives in terms of a smaller basic set. A simple algorithm to perform such a reduction is presented here, together with a review of earlier related works. The algorithm uses Jacobians and is written in Maple language, but it is easily translated in terms of any other computer algebra language.

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