Through exploring the causes and the physical substance of entropy generation in thermodynamic processes, phenomenological laws that describe them, fundamentals of thermodynamics states and non-linear thermodynamics of irreversible processes students should acquire basic skills that will allow them to independently recognize and solve the basic problems of irreversible thermodynamic processes.

After successful finishing this course, students should be able to 1) describe and explain the physical essence of thermodynamics of irreversible processes and demonstrate the basic mechanisms and laws that describe the generation of entropy 2) express the basic laws of classical irreversible and non-linear thermodynamics 2) calculate the increase in entropy and thus determine the thermodynamic qualities of the irreversible thermodynamic process

1. Equilibrium Thermodynamics: Equilibrium States, Reversible Processes, Energy Conversion 2. Classical Irreversible Thermodynamics: Local Equilibrium Theory of Thermodynamics 3. Coupled Transport Phenomena: Thermoelectricity, Thermodiffusion, Membranes 4. Chemical Reactions and Molecular Machines: Efficiency of Free-Energy Transfer and Biology 5. Finite-Time Thermodynamics: Economy, Ecology, and Heat Engines 6. Instabilities and Pattern Formation: Dissipative Structures far from Equilibrium 7. Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics: Thermodynamics of Fluxes: Memory and Non-Local Effects 8. Theories with Internal Variables The Influence of Internal Structure on Dynamics 9. Rational Thermodynamics: A Mathematical Theory of Materials with Memory 10. Hamiltonian Formalisms: A Mathematical Structure of Reversible and Irreversible Dynamics 11. Mesoscopic Thermodynamic Descriptions Thermodynamics and Fluctuations

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Passed exam in the following subjects: 1.1 Advanced course in mathematics 2.1 Selected chapters from Fluid Mechanics

Total assigned hours: 65

New material: 30
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 20

Auditory exercises: 0
Laboratory exercises: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 0
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 0
Research study work: 0

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 0
Review and grading of lab reports: 0
Review and grading of seminar papers: 0
Review and grading of the project: 0
Test: 0
Test: 0
Final exam: 15

Activity during lectures: 0
Test/test: 0
Laboratory practice: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 50
Project: 0
Final exam: 50
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 40

I. Prigogine, Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes, 3rd edition, Interscience Publishers (1967).; S.R. De Groot and P. Mazur, Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics, Dover Publications, New York (2011).; H.B. Callen, Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics, 2nd edition, John Wiley and Sons (1985; Prigogine I., Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes, 3rd edition, Interscience Publishers (1967).