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Thermodynamics with Maple: I –symbolic computation. (English) Zbl 1017.80500

Summary: We consider the use of a computer algebra system to carry out the symbolic computations needed in thermodynamics. A package for Maple is described and illustrated with several examples involving the creation and manipulation of thermodynamic derivatives.

MSC:

80-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to classical thermodynamics
34-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to ordinary differential equations
34A09 Implicit ordinary differential equations, differential-algebraic equations
68W30 Symbolic computation and algebraic computation

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Maple
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