Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Its Geometric Structure

By Henry W. Haslach Jr.

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489981748
• ISBN13: 9781489981745
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"