The isothermal compressibility of a general crystal is analyzed within classical density functional theory. Our approach can be used for homogeneous and unstrained crystals containing an arbitrarily high density of local defects. We start by coarse-graining the microscopic particle density and then obtain the long-wavelength limits of the correlation functions of elasticity theory and the therm...

This paper proposes a thermodynamical pseudo Hamiltonian formulation of Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor model in which takes place some chemical reaction. This is done both in the isothermal and non isothermal cases. It is shown that the Gibbs free energy and the opposite of entropy can be chosen as Hamiltonian function respectively. For the non isothermal case, the so called Interconnection an...

The influence of calcination time on the phase transformation and crystallization kinetics of anodized titania nanotube arrays was studied using in-situ isothermal and non-isothermal synchrotron radiation diffraction from room temperature to 900 °C. Anatase first crystallized at 400 °C, while rutile crystallized at 550 °C. Isothermal heating of the anodized titania nanotubes by an increase in t...

This paper suggests approaches to simulate scaling effects of thermal emission from non-isothermal pixels with a typical three-dimensional structure. We simulate effective emissivities of various V-shaped valleys by using our Monte Carlo method under the isothermal assumption. An analytical formula of the effective emissivities is derived based on photon rebounding between surfaces in the valle...

A pure fluid at its critical point shows a dramatic slow-down in its dynamics, due to a divergence of the order-parameter susceptibility and the coefficient of heat transport. Under isothermal conditions, however, sound waves provide the only possible relaxation mechanism for order-parameter fluctuations. Here we study the critical dynamics of an isothermal, compressible nonideal fluid via scal...

Many models simulating the behavior of Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) exist nowadays, in the one or three dimensional situation. In most of the cases they are not able to describe the non isothermal behavior of SMA due to the thermomechanical loadings. Indeed, the influence of the stress on the product phase leads to an orientation of the variants, when the temperature creates a self-accomodating ma...

The discovery of the giant magnetocaloric effect with isothermal field-induced entropy change beyond the spin-multiplicity limit gave rise to some indistinctness in the literature regarding the applicability of fundamental thermodynamics in data analysis. Those misleading interpretations concerning, for instance, the rigorousness of phenomenological thermodynamics are clarified here. Specifical...

It is shown that the comment by Costa and Meneses [1] did not point any technical or conceptual flaw in our paper titled " Conservative Force Fields in the application of the nonextensive distribution to the historical problem of the unbounded isothermal atmosphere under constant gravity is theoretically correct. It should be stressed that our solution is somewhat connected with a similar solut...

The one-step single-tube betaine-free reverse transcription (RT)-loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay was developed for rapid diagnosis of hepatitis E virus. This assay amplified the target gene in less than 45 min (even as short as 20 min) under isothermal conditions at 63 degrees C, and the sensitivity of this assay was 100-fold greater than that of RT-PCR. This assay demonstrated a d...

Thermal degradation of poly(lactic acid) (PLA), a biodegradable and bioabsorbable polyester, has been investigated under inert atmosphere using both isothermal and dynamic heating regimes.. Two kinetic models, one for isothermal and the other for dynamic heating regims were used to fit the experimental data. It has been demonstrated that the thermal degradation of PLA is a one-stage process wit...