Title: Generalized thermodynamics
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: Thermodynamics, Irreversible processes, Hydrodynamics, Physical organic chemistry, Physics, Statistical physics, Condensed matter, Physical and theoretical Chemistry, Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics, Traffic Automotive and Aerospace Engineering
LC classification: QC318.I7 .E88 2002, QC318.I7 .E88 2002