Books like Advanced thermodynamics for engineers by Kenneth Wark

Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers presents a comprehensive review of thermodynamic theory tailored for engineering applications. The text builds on foundational energy analysis concepts, placing particular emphasis on availability and irreversibility in both nonreacting and reacting systems, and highlights practical uses of fuel and standard chemical availabilities. Readers will find detailed treatments of current PvT equations of state and their role in generating property data for single-phase and two-phase regions. The book also covers theoretical and empirical relationships for vapor pressure and enthalpy of vaporization, as well as multicomponent, single-phase system theory, including partial molal properties and chemical potential, which are further extended to multiphase, multicomponent systems. A dedicated chapter explores microscopic implications of the entropy function and the second law, providing a deeper understanding of thermodynamic behavior at the molecular level.

First publish date: 1995