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- Title: Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure
- Author : Henry W. Haslach Jr.
- Release Date : January 15, 2011
- Genre: Physics,Books,Science & Nature,Professional & Technical,Engineering,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 5725 KB
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Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure explores the thermodynamics of non-equilibrium processes in materials. The book develops a general technique to construct nonlinear evolution equations describing non-equilibrium processes, while also developing a geometric context for non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Solid materials are the main focus in this volume, but the construction is shown to also apply to fluids. This volume also:
• Explains the theory behind a thermodynamically-consistent construction of non-linear evolution equations for non-equilibrium processes, based on supplementing the second law with a maximum dissipation criterion
• Provides a geometric setting for non-equilibrium thermodynamics in differential topology and, in particular, contact structures that generalize Gibbs
• Models processes that include thermoviscoelasticity, thermoviscoplasticity, thermoelectricity and dynamic fracture
• Recovers several standard time-dependent constitutive models as maximum dissipation processes
• Produces transport models that predict finite velocity of propagation
• Emphasizes applications to the time-dependent modeling of soft biological tissue
Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure will be valuable for researchers, engineers and graduate students in non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the mathematical modeling of material behavior.
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