Trends in Contemporary Thermodynamics

Dear Colleagues,

The Joint European Thermodynamics Conference is a biannual congress with a high level of participation from the scientific community working in the field of thermodynamics. The JETC conferences were established in 1989 under the name Journées Européennes de Thermodynamique Contemporaine by ECAST, the European Center for Advanced Studies in Thermodynamics. As it was desirable to enlarge the scope of the conferences and to unite thermodynamics across Europe, the conferences changed their name in 2007 to Joint European Thermodynamics Conference, while the acronym remained the same.

Methods and concepts of equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics appear in various areas of physics, engineering, and life sciences. For this reason, JETC aims to improve the interaction among the different areas, and to pull together the different approaches to both the fundamental theoretical problems and to the applicative ones.

The following issues are within the focus of the conference, but papers on other relevant topics are of interest:

• Solid mechanics and thermodynamics: Lagrangian vs. Eulerian approach, modeling of fractures, dislocations, anisotropy, memory, pre-stress, yield stress, damage, soft matter.
• Thermodynamics and multiscale dynamics:  Thermodynamical characterization of instabilities/bifurcations in non-equilibrium systems, thermodynamic methods of reduction (e.g., from kinetic theory to fluid mechanics), memory effects.
• Heat transfer and superfluids: Relations to superfluid models, one-component and two-component, vortex-filament method.
• Computation of thermodynamic properties: Numerical simulation, Monte Carlo method and/or molecular dynamics.
• Entropy and information: Construction of entropies, information theory and fluctuations.
• Thermodynamics of diffusion and porous media: Theories of diffusion, thermodynamic restrictions and implications, non-Fickian diffusion, transport in porous media.
• Mathematical methods of non-equilibrium thermodynamics: Exploitation of the entropy principle, parabolic vs. hyperbolic theories, existence and regularity of solutions, finite speed of signal propagation, Galilean invariance.
• Thermodynamics and quantum physics: Two-state quantum heat engines, quantum ratchets and molecular Maxwell daemons.
• Electrochemistry: Thermodynamic descriptions of electrochemical processes, electrodiffusion, electrochemical reactions.
• Kinetics and dissipative structures: Reaction kinetics, self-organization and dissipative structures. 
• Thermodynamics in social sciences: Thermodynamics in economy, biology, and medicine.
• Thermodynamics and geometry: Geometric formulation of classical thermodynamic laws. 
• Engineering thermodynamics: Applications of thermodynamics in engineering, machinery, aerodynamics, and chemical engineering.
• Experimental thermodynamics: How to measure thermodynamic quantities; the construction of thermodynamic data sets.
• Contribution of thermodynamics to efficiency and optimization: Sustainability and environment, finite-time thermodynamics, exergy, entropy production.
• Non-equilibrium thermodynamics with applications to complex systems: Thermodynamical models to describe dissipative processes in complex media, such as superfluids, ionized fluid mixtures, polarizable and magnetizable media, crystals with defects, porous media, biosystems, semiconductors, nanosystems, metamaterials and others.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Physics.

Prof. Dr. Vito Antonio Cimmelli
Prof. Dr. Antonio Sellitto
Guest Editors

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• classical and extended non-equilibrium thermodynamics
• thermodynamics with finite time
• transport phenomena
• phase transitions
• quantum thermodynamics
• relativistic thermodynamics
• thermodynamical models in life sciences