Generalized Thermodynamics The Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes and Generalized Hydrodynamics /

• Main Author: Eu, Byung Chan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, An International Book Series on The Fundamental Theories of Physics: Their Clarification, Development and Application ; 124
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Continuum physics.; Condensed matter.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Automotive engineering.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Physical Chemistry.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Automotive Engineering.

Despite a long history of almost 180 years stretching back to the times of Carnot and, later, Clausius and Lord Kelvin, amongst others following him, the subject of thermodynamics has not as yet seen its full maturity, in the sense that the theory of irreversible processes has remained incomplete. T...

Table of Contents:

• The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
• The First Law of Thermodynamics
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Thermodynamics of Global Irreversible Processes
• Conservation Laws and Evolution Equations
• Local Form of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Local Irreversible Thermodynamics
• Thermodynamics of Linear Irreversible Processes
• Irreversible Thermodynamics of Steady States
• Variational Principles
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