Papenfuß C. Continuum Thermodynamics and Constitutive Theory

Springer, 2020. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-43988-0.This book presents different thermodynamic approaches in the area of constitutive theory: thermodynamics of irreversible processes, rational thermodynamics, and extended thermodynamics. These different approaches are analyzed with respect to their presuppositions, as well as to their results, and each method is applied to several important examples. In many cases these examples are archetypes for numerous technologically important materials; i.e. complex materials having an internal structure. Some of the examples dealt with in this book are liquid crystals, colloid suspensions, and fiber suspensions.Some Elements of Continuum Mechanics
Balance Equations
Some Elements of Thermodynamics
State Spaces and Constitutive Equations
Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes (TIP)
Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes with Internal Variables
Rational Thermodynamics
Extended Thermodynamics
Shock Fronts and Hyperbolic Systems of Differential Equations
A Short Survey of Thermodynamics of Material Surfaces
Outlook: Mesoscopic Theory of Complex Materials