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I am trying to understand the nature of the dependence of heat capacity/specific heat on pressure.
I understand that one may give the the following relations:
\frac{C_p}{C_v}=1+\alpha\gamma T
where C_p,C_v,\alpha,\gamma, and T are isoberic specific heat, isochoric specific heat, thermal expansivity, Anderson-Gruneisen parameter, and Temperature, respectively.
C_v=\frac{\alpha V K_T}{\gamma}
where V is volume and K_T is the isothermal bulk modulus.What I do not think I fully grasp from these relationships is how the specific heat is related to the pressure. Is appears as though the heat capacity of a material depends on the pressure only because the density depends on the pressure.
In other words, and more specifically related to my own challenges; If I wanted to model heat transport with both the density and specific heat depending on pressure and temperature in a thermodynamically consistent way (lets ignore conductivity, with which I have no problems), I could use temperature-dependent data for C_p and temperature-pressure dependent data for the density and the model would be fully consistent (lets also ignore phase changes)?
If so, am I correct to say that it must be true that the specific heat, having the dimensions of J kg-1 K-1 actually does NOT have a dependence on pressure? And also, that the volumetric specific heat having dimensions J m-3 K-1 is actually just \rho C_p.
Thank you!
I understand that one may give the the following relations:
\frac{C_p}{C_v}=1+\alpha\gamma T
where C_p,C_v,\alpha,\gamma, and T are isoberic specific heat, isochoric specific heat, thermal expansivity, Anderson-Gruneisen parameter, and Temperature, respectively.
C_v=\frac{\alpha V K_T}{\gamma}
where V is volume and K_T is the isothermal bulk modulus.What I do not think I fully grasp from these relationships is how the specific heat is related to the pressure. Is appears as though the heat capacity of a material depends on the pressure only because the density depends on the pressure.
In other words, and more specifically related to my own challenges; If I wanted to model heat transport with both the density and specific heat depending on pressure and temperature in a thermodynamically consistent way (lets ignore conductivity, with which I have no problems), I could use temperature-dependent data for C_p and temperature-pressure dependent data for the density and the model would be fully consistent (lets also ignore phase changes)?
If so, am I correct to say that it must be true that the specific heat, having the dimensions of J kg-1 K-1 actually does NOT have a dependence on pressure? And also, that the volumetric specific heat having dimensions J m-3 K-1 is actually just \rho C_p.
Thank you!
