On a special family of thermodynamic processes and their invariants

A special class of contact transformations treated as thermodynamic processes is considered. The transformations are generated by a class of contact Hamiltonians derived from the fundamental relation and the complete set of equations of state of a system. For any contact Hamiltonian of this class th...

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Published in:Reports on mathematical physics 2000-12, Vol.46 (3), p.461-468
Main Author: Mrugaa̵, R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
contact manifolds
contact vector fields
Legendre submanifolds
thermodynamic invariants
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Summary:A special class of contact transformations treated as thermodynamic processes is considered. The transformations are generated by a class of contact Hamiltonians derived from the fundamental relation and the complete set of equations of state of a system. For any contact Hamiltonian of this class there are derived contact flows and some invariants (if any) of these flows are indicated.
ISSN:0034-4877
1879-0674
DOI:10.1016/S0034-4877(00)90012-0