Generalized thermodynamics
Subtitle: the thermodynamics of irreversible processes and generalized hydrodynamics
By: by Byung Chan Eu.
Series: Fundamental theories of physics -- v. 124.
Publisher: Kluwer; Springer
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Irreversible processes; Thermodynamics; Hydrodynamics
Description: This monograph presents, from the viewpoint of continuum mechanics, a newly emerging field of irreversible thermodynamics, in which linear irreversible thermodynamics are extended to the nonlinear regime and macroscopic phenomena far removed from equilibrium are studied in a manner consistent with the laws of thermodynamics. The tool to develop this thermodynamic theory of irreversible processes are the generalized thermodynamics, which also extends the classical hydrodynamics of Navier, Stokes and Fourier to nonlinear irreversible processes. On the basis of mathematically rigorous representations of the first and the second law of thermodynamics, phenomenological theory (continuum mechanics) deductions are made from the thermodynamic laws of R. Clausius and Lord Kelvin and by this continuum mechanics theories are formulated for macroscopic irreversible processes occurring far removed from equilibrium. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics are developed for thermodynamic functions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.