Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics And Its Geometric Structure

Maximum Dissipation: Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure explores the thermodynamics of non-equilibrium processes in materials. The book develops a general technique created in order 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 thermodynamically-consistent construction of non-linear evolution equations for non-equilibrium processes ?Provides a geometric setting for non-equilibrium thermodynamics through several standard models, which are defined as maximum dissipation processes ?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.

• • Author: Henry W. Haslach Jr.
• • Publisher: Springer
• • Publication Date: Sep 19, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 311 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1489981748
• • ISBN-13: 9781489981745