Terminology and Classification of Special Versions of Non-Equilibrium Continuum Thermodynamics

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  • Wolfgang Muschik
  • Liliana Restuccia

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https://doi.org/10.1685/

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Contemporary controversies concerning the foundations of thermodynamics are rooted not only in different sets of concepts and principles,but also in terminology and semantics. Here some remarks are made for a possible unifying thermodynamical terminology.We take into consideration only the continuum formulation of different deterministic non-equilibrium thermodynamical theories. Introducing the concepts of balance equations, state vector, basic or wanted fields, internal variables, constitutive mappings,we classify special versions of non-equilibrium continuum thermodynamics: thermodynamics of irreversible processes, rational thermodynamics and extended irreversible thermodynamics. [DOI: 10.1685/CSC06120] About DOI

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2007-10-01

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##issue.vol## 1 (2006)

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