Reciprocity relations in thermodynamics

Miroslav Grmela

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002, vol. 309, issue 3, 304-328

Abstract: Dissipative time evolution of macroscopic systems describing the experimentally observed approach to reduced descriptions is put into the context of contact geometry. This viewpoint of nonequilibrium thermodynamics unifies many well-established mesoscopic dynamical theories, as for example the Boltzmann kinetic theory and the Navier–Stokes–Fourier hydrodynamics, and leads to new reciprocity relations that extend the Maxwell and the Onsager–Casimir relations.

Keywords: Thermodynamics (equilibrium and nonequilibrium); Dynamics; Contact geometry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)00564-2

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