New Perspectives in Thermodynamics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Foundations of Thermodynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. An Outline of Thermodynamical Structure

      • J. Serrin

      Pages 3-32

   3. Foundations of Continuum Thermodynamics

      • M. Šilhavý

      Pages 33-48

   4. Foundations of the Clausius-Duhem Inequality

      • M. Feinberg, R. Lavine

      Pages 49-64

   5. Recent Research on the Foundations of Thermodynamics

      • B. D. Coleman, D. R. Owen

      Pages 65-77

   6. A Third Line of Argument in Thermodynamics

      • C. Truesdell

      Pages 79-83

   7. The Laws of Thermodynamics for Non-Cyclic Processes

      • M. Ricou

      Pages 85-97

3. The Thermodynamics of Gibbs and Carathéodory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. What Did Gibbs and Carathéodory Leave Us About Thermodynamics?

      • C. Truesdell

      Pages 101-124

   3. Structure and Dynamical Stability of Gibbsian States

      • R. L. Fosdick

      Pages 125-155

   4. Genericity and Gibbs’s Conjecture on the Maximum Number of Coexistent Phases

      • C.-S. Man

      Pages 157-168

4. Special Material Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Thermodynamics and the Constitutive Relations for Second Sound in Crystals

      • B. D. Coleman, M. Fabrizio, D. R. Owen

      Pages 171-185

   3. Interstitial Working and a Nonclassical Continuum Thermodynamics

      • J. E. Dunn

      Pages 187-222

   4. Phase Transformations and Non-Elliptic Free Energy Functions

      • R. D. James

      Pages 223-239

   5. Dynamic Changes of Phase in a van der Waals Fluid

      • R. Hagan, J. Serrin

      Pages 241-260

The material included in this book was first presented in a series of lectures de­ livered at the University of Minnesota in June 1983 in connection with the con­ ference "Thermodynamics and Phase Transitions". This conference was one of the principal events in the first year of operation of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (lMA) at the University of Minnesota. The Institute was founded under the auspices of the National Science Foun­ dation of the United States and the University of Minnesota and is devoted to strengthening and fostering the relation of mathematics with its various applica­ tions to problems of the real world. The present volume constitutes an important element in the continuing pub­ lication program of the Ipstitute. Previous publications in this program have ap­ peared as lecture notes in the well-known Springer series, and future ones will be part of a new series "IMA Volumes in Applied Mathematics". Preface Until recently it was believed that thermodynamics could be given a rigorous foundation only in certain restricted circumstances, particularly those involving reversible and quasi-static processes. More general situations, commonly arising in continuum theories, have therefore been treated on the assumption that inter­ nal energy, entropy and absolute temperature are a priori given quantities, or have been dealt with on a more or less ad hoc basis, with emphasis for example on various types of variational formulations and maximization rules.

• applied mathematics
• crystal
• dynamics
• element
• energy
• entropy
• geometry
• heat
• mathematics
• mechanics
• stability
• statics
• structure
• temperature
• thermodynamics

• Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

  James Serrin

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