Thermodynamics and Energy Conversion: Second Edition

Henning Struchtrup is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC, Canada. Before joining the University of Victoria in 2001, he obtained Diploma and PhD in Engineering Physics from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and held postdoc positions in Berlin, Catania (Italy), and Minneapolis (USA). His teaching and research cover a wide range of topics in thermodynamics, from applications in energy systems, over nonequilibrium thermodynamics, to rarefied gas dynamics. He authored numerous scientific contributions and a monography on Macroscopic Transport Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows (Springer 2007). His textbook on Thermodynamics and Energy Conversion--now in the 2nd edition--is rooted in his desire to make thermodynamics, in particular entropy and the second law, accessible and relevant to students in engineering and applied sciences.

Henning Struchtrup是加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞省維多利亞市的維多利亞大學機械工程系的教授。在2001年加入維多利亞大學之前，他在德國柏林工業大學獲得了工程物理學的學士學位和博士學位，並在柏林、卡塔尼亞（意大利）和明尼阿波利斯（美國）擔任博士後職位。他的教學和研究涵蓋了熱力學的各個領域，從能源系統應用到非平衡熱力學，再到稀薄氣體動力學。他撰寫了許多科學論文，並在2007年出版了一本關於「稀薄氣體流動的宏觀傳輸方程」的專著（Springer 2007）。他的教科書「熱力學與能源轉換」已經出版第二版，旨在使工程和應用科學領域的學生能夠理解和應用熱力學，尤其是熵和第二定律。