Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 200, Issue -, Pages 745-792Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2020.08.008
Keywords
Thermodynamics; CALPHAD; first-principles calculations; materials design; critical phenomena
Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [1825538]
- Department of Energy [DE-FE0031553, DE-EE0008456, DE-SC0020147, DE-NE0008757]
- Army Research Lab [W911NF-14-2-0084]
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-17-1-2567]
- Wright Patterson AirForce Base
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- National Institute of Standards and Technology [IIP-0433033, 0541674/8, 1034965/8]
- LION clusters at the Pennsylvania State University
- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- NSF [ACI-1053575]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0020147] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1825538] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Thermodynamics is a science concerning the state of a system, whether it is stable, metastable or unstable, when interacting with the surroundings. In this overview, fundamentals of thermodynamics are briefly reviewed through the combination of first and second laws of thermodynamics for open and nonequilibrium systems to demonstrate that the reversible equilibrium and irreversible nonequilibrium thermodynamics can be integrated to enhance the power and utilities of thermodynamics. The recent progresses in computational thermodynamics, the remaining challenges, and potential impacts in broad scientific fields are discussed. It is shown that computational thermodynamics enables the modeling of thermodynamics of a state as a function of both external and internal variables and quantitative calculations of a broad range of properties of a multicomponent system in terms of first and second derivatives of energy, including not only equilibrium states when there are no driving forces for any internal processes and but also non-equilibrium states with driving forces for internal processes. Consequently, external constraints such as fixed strain and internal degree of freedoms such as ordering and defects can be described in a coherent framework and applied to materials design. Furthermore, two important but largely overlooked aspects in thermodynamics will be discussed, i.e. the rigorous application of statistical thermodynamics with the probability of configurations and their contributions to system properties, and the applications of second derivatives of energy with respect to either two extensive variables or two potentials or a mixture of them in terms of understanding and predicting emergent behaviors, critical phenomena, kinetic coefficients, and mechanical properties. (C) 2020 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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