Normal modes in irreversible thermodynamics

B.U. Felderhof and U.M. Titulaer

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1980, vol. 100, issue 3, 563-572

Abstract: We show that the linear equations of irreversible thermodynamics possess normal mode solutions allowing a simple spectral decomposition of the Green function and of the time-correlation function of thermal fluctuations. In the nondegenerate case it is possible to introduce normal coordinates with exponential behavior in time. As an application we consider the normal mode analysis of damped mechanical systems.

Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(80)90167-3

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