Recent Developments in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics

Proceedings of the Meeting Held at Bellaterra School of Thermodynamics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain, September 26-30, 1983

508 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Early applications of extended irreversible thermodynamics.- Extended thermodynamics - past, present, future.- An approach to extended irreversible thermodynamics I : Macroscopic aspects.- An approach to extended irreversible thermodynamics II. Fluctuation theory.- An approach to extended irreversible thermodynamics III. Nonequilibrium equations of state and comparison with generalized hydrodynamics.- Extended irreversible thermodynamics and chemical kinetics.- Non-stationary relativistic thermodynamics and some cosmological problems.- Generalized Gibbs equations in irreversible thermodynamics.- Nonequilibrium thermodynamics: A hidden variable approach.- Fluctuations around equilibrium.- Theories of fluctuations in nonequilibrium systems.- Microscopic approaches to nonlinear hydrodynamics.- Unified theory of internal and external fluctuations.- Dynamics of nonequilibrium transitions.- Noise in electrical systems.- Fundamental remarks on evaluating dissipation inequalities.- On classical nonequilibrium thermodynamics and its extensions.- On extended Onsagerian thermodynamics.- Relativistic generalized hydrodynamics.- Variational principles in extended irreversible thermodynamics. Application to heat and mass transfer.- Extended thermodynamics of dense gases.- Steady states resulting from coupled chemical oscillators.- Fluctuations in non-linear viscoelastic systems.- Viscoelastic models for brownian motion in fluids with spin.- Correlation functions of processes driven by external colored noise.- A non-renormalized and a renormalized description of the Fokker-Planck dynamics.- The equation which governs irreversibility in continuum mechanics.- Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of dilute relativistic plasmas.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Physik Mathematische / Computergestützte / Theoretische Physik
• ISBN: 9783540129271
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.1984
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: J. Casas-Vazquez, D. Jou, G. Lebon