Adiabatic – Definition and Pronunciation
What is Adiabatic?
Adiabatic is a term describing a thermodynamic process in which no heat is added to or removed from the system.
Examples of Adiabatic
Such good agreement with theory based on a rather crude model of stratified refractivity is likely due to the fact that slow variations in the refractive structure of the evaporation duct may result in “adiabatic” restructuring of the trapped modes and mutual transfer of energy between the resulting mode structure still largely formed by trapped modes.
From “Comparison of Experimental Results with the Deterministic Theory of Elevated Duct Propagation”.
The change in entropy in a reversible process is given by the amount of heat rejected or absorbed by a system divided by the absolute temperature, at, which the heat exchange occurs. In an adiabatic process (in, which there is no heat rejected or absorbed) the change of entropy is zero.
From “Liquefied natural gas (LNG) – The Ideal Gas”.
The word adiabatic means “not able to pass through“, which describes the boundary of the process that, in turn, is defined as providing perfect thermal insulation and total impermeability to the system.
From “Gas laws, thermodynamic principles and reliquefaction”.
Pronunciation of Adiabatic
