The surface tension of oxygen and nitrogen was calculated using molecular dynamics simulation. Due to the inhomogeneity of the system, the long range correction approach of Janeček [1] was used. The results regarding the temperature dependence of the surface tension were compared to simulation data by Neyt et al. [2] and experimental data. Because of simpler statistical analogs of certain therm...

The author’s Simulation Package for Thermodynamic Systems, which is freely downloadable from the internet, was specially designed to accommodate convection bond graphs, although it also handles conventional and hybrid bond graphs. Several new backward-compatible features have been added to this simulation package to enhance the flexibility of its non-thermodynamic aspects, such as its treatment...

In “Is the Frobenius Matrix Norm Induced?”, the authors ask whether the Frobenius and the norms are induced. There, they claimed that the Frobenius norm is not induced and, consequently, conjectured that the norm may not be induced. In this note, it is shown that the Frobenius norm is induced on particular matrix spaces. It is then shown that the norm is in fact induced on a particular matrix-v...

We present an algorithm to evaluate large deviation functions associated to historydependent observables. Instead of relying on a time discretisation procedure to approximate the dynamics, we provide a direct continuous-time algorithm valuable for systems with multiple time scales, thus extending the work of Giardinà, Kurchan and Peliti [1]. The procedure is supplemented with a thermodynamic-in...

Hydration of Portland cement in normal conditions is a complex problem. A detailed description the hydration process includes clinker dissolution, diffusion processes, surface phenomena on nuclei new phases, quantitative composition solid matter and growth products, porous structure, humidity depending hardening time water/cement ratio. Thermodynamic modeling based Lothenbach model allows solvi...