Sentences with phrase «thermodynamic concept»

Enough examples might help some readers unfamiliar with thermodynamic concepts grasp the essence of some heat transfer basics.

Director of the Henri Poincaré Institute in Paris, France, he studies kinetic theory, the mathematical interpretation of thermodynamic concepts like entropy, and was one of four mathematicians under 40 who won the medal last year.

Many flawed thermodynamic concepts are presented in the paper, some of which we have already seen in earlier articles.

He may be referring to the thermodynamic concept of entropy when saying that science has proven evolution to be wrong.

Just as it takes time to heat a solid ice cube before it starts melting — a thermodynamic concept called latent heat — there's a time lag before you can safely accelerate your car in a solid jam, offsetting any advantage of closeness, researchers reported last week in the New Journal of Physics.

They have also assaulted the simplistic CICO model on thermodynamic grounds, showing conclusively that when you consider a thermodynamic concept called «entropy,» the conventional wisdom about calories actually violates the laws of physics!

Paul Birch: «The standard and fundamental definition of the thermodynamic concept of temperature is that two bodies are at the same temperature when they are in thermal equilibrium.»