On a special family of thermodynamic processes and their invariants

Reports on Mathematical Physics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 461-468

  Mrugaa, R ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Contact manifolds; Contact vector fields; Legendre submanifolds; Thermodynamic invariants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347117896     PISSN: 00344877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0034-4877(00)90012-0     Document Type: Article

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