François Massieu and the thermodynamic potentials
Abstract
The thermodynamic potentials have first been introduced in 1869 by François Massieu under the name of "fonctions caractéristiques" in two short articles published in the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Motivated by applications to thermal engines, he showed how such a single function encompasses all properties of a fluid, linking its equation of state to its thermal properties. The conceptual interest of Massieu's functions was acknowledged many decades later.
- Publication:
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Comptes Rendus Physique
- Pub Date:
- November 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.crhy.2017.09.011
- Bibcode:
- 2017CRPhy..18..526B
- Keywords:
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- Thermodynamic potentials;
- François Massieu;
- Equation of state;
- Comptes rendus