The Dominant Role of the Chemical  Potential for Driving Currents in  Oceans and Air

Albrecht Elsner

doi:10.4236/gep.2014.23016

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The Dominant Role of the Chemical Potential for Driving Currents in Oceans and Air ()

Albrecht Elsner

Am Mühlbach 14, D-85748 Garching, Germany.

DOI: 10.4236/gep.2014.23016 PDF HTML 4,006 Downloads 4,819 Views Citations

Abstract

Applying the thermodynamic zeros of the entropy and internal energy of the gas mass in the volume yields the numerically unique relation between these quantities, thus allowing calculation of the chemical potential in the gas fields of temperature and pressure , viz. . A difference in chemical potential provides a force for freely moving matter flow. Since is intrinsically a negative function, decreasing as the temperature increases, natural flow processes are initiated by high values in cold regions directed to low

Keywords

Chemical-Potential Temperature Function, Thermo-Mechanical Pressure, Gravitational Pressure, Gulf Stream, Oceanography, Meteorology

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Elsner, A. (2014) The Dominant Role of the Chemical Potential for Driving Currents in Oceans and Air. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 2, 117-125. doi: 10.4236/gep.2014.23016.

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The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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