Thermodynamic Consistency and Thermomechanical Dynamics (TMD) for Nonequilibrium Irreversible Mechanism of Heat Engines
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 2021, 9, 1364-1390 https://www.scirp.org/journal/jamp ISSN Online: 2327-4379 ISSN Print: 2327-4352 Thermodynamic Consistency and Thermomechanical Dynamics (TMD) for Nonequilibrium Irreversible Mechanism of Heat Engines Hiroshi Uechi1*, Lisa Uechi2*, Schun T. Uechi3* 1Osaka Gakuin University, Suita, Japan 2University of California, Los Angeles, USA 3KPMG Ignition Tokyo, Data Tech., Tokyo, Japan How to cite this paper: Uechi, H., Uechi, Abstract L. and Uechi, S.T. (2021) Thermodynamic Consistency and Thermomechanical Dy- The irreversible mechanism of heat engines is studied in terms of thermody- namics (TMD) for Nonequilibrium Irre- namic consistency and thermomechanical dynamics (TMD) which is pro- versible Mechanism of Heat Engines. Jour- posed for a method to study nonequilibrium irreversible thermodynamic sys- nal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 9, tems. As an example, a water drinking bird (DB) known as one of the heat 1364-1390. https://doi.org/10.4236/jamp.2021.96093 engines is specifically examined. The DB system suffices a rigorous experi- mental device for the theory of nonequilibrium irreversible thermodynamics. Received: May 19, 2021 The DB nonlinear equation of motion proves explicitly that nonlinear diffe- Accepted: June 27, 2021 rential equations with time-dependent coefficients must be classified as inde- Published: June 30, 2021 pendent equations different from those of constant coefficients. The solutions Copyright © 2021 by author(s) and of nonlinear differential equations with time-dependent coefficients can ex- Scientific Research Publishing Inc. press emergent phenomena: nonequilibrium irreversible states. The couplings This work is licensed under the Creative among mechanics, thermodynamics and time-evolution to nonequilibrium Commons Attribution International irreversible state are defined when the internal energy, thermodynamic work, License (CC BY 4.0).
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