In message <199603091851.LAA10783@central.bldrdoc.gov> Allan Harvey writes:
> You wrote:
> >Dr. Harvey:
> >
> > Welcome to ASA! I trust that in the future you will help us to deal
> > with
> >issues more profound than "pi=3"! But we discuss practically anything here,
> so
> >don't be afraid to bring your questions or news.
> > Such as what is thermophysics?
>
> Thanks for the welcome. Thermophysics is a fancy way of saying
> thermodynamic and physical properties. So, for example, in the division we
> have people doing experimental studies of vapor pressure, phase equilibria,
> transport properties, and calorimetry of fluids (with a current emphasis on
> non-ozone-depleting refrigerants). We have a "process separations" group
> mostly studying supercritical extraction. There is a group doing cryogenic
> refrigeration technology. The group I'm in does modeling and data
> activities for fluids and fluid mixtures. I personally sort of specialize
> in dilute-mixture thermodynamics - Henry's law and so forth, along with
> computer simulation of fluid thermodynamics. I am also at work on the next
> edition of the official "Steam Tables" with the internationally agreed-upon
> formulations for the properties of H2O. Journals where one might see me
> include J. Chem. Phys., J. Phys. Chem., AIChE Journal, and Fluid Phase
> Equilibria. Though I've published very little recently since I was in
> private industry for 4 years (following a postdoc at NIST-Gaithersburg,
> following a 1988 Berkeley Ph.D. in ChemE) before coming to NIST-Boulder in
> Nov. 1994.
>
> So anyway, that's a brief description. Apparently there is a name change in
> the works as we are absorbing part of what is now the Chemical Kinetics and
> Thermodynamics Division. The new name is apparently going to be the
> Physical and Chemical Properties Division, which none of us like because it
> is longer to type and we'll have to change our business cards.
>
> Probably more than you wanted to know ...
>
> Allan
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