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.
The macroscopic irreversible processes studied include global
irreversible processes as well as local hydrodynamic processes at
an arbitrary degree of removal from equilibrium. Applications of
the theories cover global irreversible processes, simple flows of
non-Newtonian and non-Fourier fluids, shock waves of monatomic and
diatomic gases, rarefied gas dynamics, ultrasonic wave absorption
and dispersion of monatomic and diatomic gases, electrochemical
processes, neural networks of chemical reactors, microflows, etc.
Variational principles in irreversible thermodynamics and contact
manifolds in thermodynamics are also discussed.'
This monograph, will be of interest to condensed matter
physicists, chemicalphysicists, biophysicists, mechanical and
aerospace engineers, and specialists and graduate students in the
fields of irreversible thermodynamics and non-equilibrium
statistical mechanics.
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