Geometric description of chemical reactions

DOI10.1007/S10910-013-0250-8MaRDI QIDQ2441103zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hernando Quevedo, Diego Tapias

Publication date 21 March 2014

Published in Journal of Mathematical Chemistry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0262

zbMATH Keywords

chemical reactionscoordinate singularitiesequilibrium thermodynamicsgeodesicsgeometrothermodynamicsideal gasesVan der Waals gases

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Chemical kinetics in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A30) Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry (92E20)

Abstract: We use the formalism of Geometrothermodynamics to describe chemical reactions in the context of equilibrium thermodynamics. Any chemical reaction in a closed system is shown to be described by a geodesic in a $2-$dimensional manifold that can be interpreted as the equilibrium space of the reaction. We first show this in the particular cases of a reaction with only two species corresponding to either two ideal gases or two van der Waals gases. We then consider the case of a reaction with an arbitrary number of species. The initial equilibrium state of the geodesic is determined by the initial conditions of the reaction. The final equilibrium state, which follows from a thermodynamic analysis of the reaction, is shown to correspond to a coordinate singularity of the thermodynamic metric which describes the equilibrium manifold.

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