Morphet, R.;
(2010)
Thermodynamic potentials and phase change for transport systems.
(CASA Working Papers
156).
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL): London, UK.
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Abstract
“Thermodynamics of the City” (Wilson 2008) poses the question, in relation to the doubly constrained trip distribution model –What is Z?- where Z is the partition function. To answer this question the entropy maximising procedure of Jaynes(1957) is employed, the partition function derived and expressions given for Helmholtz free energy, for more general free energies and for specific heat. Phase changes are identified using these measures. The implications of these results are discussed and the possibility of a spatially based exergy analysis is suggested .
Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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Title: | Thermodynamic potentials and phase change for transport systems |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/publications/workingPape... |
Language: | English |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/20361 |
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