Müller I., Ruggeri T. Rational Extended Thermodynamics

2^nd ed. — N.Y.—Berlin—Heidelberg: Springer, 1998. — XV + 396 p. — (Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy. Vol. 37) — ISBN: 978-1-4612-7460-5.Ordinary thermodynamics provides reliable results when the thermodynamic fields are smooth, in the sense that there are no steep gradients and no rapid changes. In fluids and gases this is the domain of the equations of Navier—Stokes and Fourier. Extended thermodynamics becomes relevant for rapidly varying and strongly inhomogeneous processes. Thus the propagation of high frequency waves, and the shape of shock waves, and the regression of small-scale fluctuation are governed by extended thermodynamics. The field equations of ordinary thermodynamics are parabolic while extended thermodynamics is governed by hyperbolic systems. The main ingredients of extended thermodynamics are
field equations of balance type,
constitutive quantities depending on the present local state and
entropy as a concave function of the state variables.
This set of assumptions leads to first order quasi-linear symmetric hyperbolic systems of field equations; it guarantees the well-posedness of initial value problems and finite speeds of propagation. Several tenets of irreversible thermodynamics had to be changed in subtle ways to make extended thermodynamics work. Thus, the entropy is allowed to depend on nonequilibrium variables, the entropy flux is a general constitutive quantity, and the equations for stress and heat flux contain inertial terms. New insight is therefore provided into the principle of material frame indifference. With these modifications an elegant formal structure can be set up in which, just as in classical thermostatics, all restrictive conditions — derived from the entropy principle — take the form of integrability conditions.Tour d’Horizon
Early Version of Extended Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory of Gases
Formal Structure of Extended Thermodynamics
Extended Thermodynamics of Monatomic Gases
Thermodynamics of Mixtures of Euler Fluids
Relativistic Thermodynamics
Extended Thermodynamics of Reacting Mixtures
Waves in Extended Thermodynamics
Extended Thermodynamics of Moments
Extended Thermodynamics and Light Scattering
Testing Extended Thermodynamics by Sound
Structure of Shock Waves
Extended Thermodynamics of Radiation
Extended Thermodynamics of Phonons
Thermodynamics of Metal Electrons
Viscoelastic Fluids