Modern Engineering Thermodynamics

Chapter 7

Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy Transport and Production Mechanisms

Contents

7.1 Introduction

7.2 What Is Entropy?

7.3 The Second Law of Thermodynamics

7.4 Carnot’s Heat Engine and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

7.5 The Absolute Temperature Scale

7.6 Heat Engines Running Backward

7.7 Clausius’s Definition of Entropy

7.8 Numerical Values for Entropy

7.9 Entropy Transport Mechanisms

7.10 Differential Entropy Balance

7.11 Heat Transport of Entropy

7.12 Work Mode Transport of Entropy

7.13 Entropy Production Mechanisms

7.14 Heat Transfer Production of Entropy

7.15 Work Mode Production of Entropy

7.16 Phase Change Entropy Production

7.17 Entropy Balance and Entropy Rate Balance Equations

Summary

7.1 Introduction

In this chapter, ...