Theoretical Physics II

Lecturer:

Pavel Demo (gar.)

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Synopsis:

Diffusional motion in gaseous, liquid and solid phases. Fick's law, diffusion equation and its solutions. Models of diffusion at microscopic level. Heat transport. Fourier's law. Heat equation and its solutions. Phase transitions: order parameter, spinodal decompostion, nucleation, coalescence, solidification, dendritic and lamellar growth, morphological stabilkty. Nanotechnology. nanolayers.

Requirements:

no prerequisities

Syllabus of lectures:

Linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Generalized forces and fluxes. Heat and mass transport. Fick's law. Diffusion equation and itd solutions. Molecular approach to diffusion. Fourier's law. Heat equation and its solutions. First order phase transformations: condensation, solididfication. Nucleation theory. Dendritic and lamellar growth. Stability of solidification front. Nanotechnologies.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Understanding of transport and kinetic processes in materials applied in civil engineering. Heat and mass transport. Phase transformations.

Study materials:

K.A. Jackson: Kinetic Processes, J. Wiley, Weinheim, 2004

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: