MSE Distinguished Seminar Series - Computational Thermodynamic Calculations

Join the Department of Materials Science and Engineering for the next installment of the Distinguished Seminar Series. This webinar is free and open to all UCF faculty and graduate students. 

In-Ho Jung, a professor at Seoul National University and the 2022 AIST John F. Elliott Lecturer, will speak on "Computational Thermodynamic Calculations: From CALPHAD Thermodynamic Database to Virtual Steelmaking Plant." 

Thermodynamics is one of the fundamentals that undergraduate engineering students learn. Although it is essential to understand the chemical reactions and phase equilibria in small-scale lab experiments and real-world materials manufacturing processes, many students and researchers are afraid of dealing with thermodynamic equations and try to avoid them as much as possible. In this lecture, He would like to show the beauty of thermodynamics by demonstrating its applicability to the real-world steelmaking process. For this, he will begin with basic chemical reactions and phase diagrams, introduce the CALPHAD type thermodynamic databases, and eventually lead into virtual steelmaking plant simulations based on thermodynamics and kinetics. He will demonstrate that thermodynamics is very important and practical engineering knowledge, and how thermodynamic software can serve as useful tools in materials engineering.