Overview
- Presents different schools of thermodynamic constitutive theory and compares their methods and results
- Starts with an introduction to basic continuum mechanics and guides students to modern scientific results
- Covers relevant examples from different fields of application; i.e. liquid crystals, colloid suspensions, thermocouples
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents different thermodynamic approaches in the area of constitutive theory: thermodynamics of irreversible processes, rational thermodynamics, and extended thermodynamics. These different approaches are analyzed with respect to their presuppositions, as well as to their results, and each method is applied to several important examples. In many cases these examples are archetypes for numerous technologically important materials; i.e. complex materials having an internal structure. Some of the examples dealt with in this book are liquid crystals, colloid suspensions, ans fiber suspensions.
The book well serves students and researchers who have basic knowledge in continuum mechanics and thermodynamics. It provides a systematic overview of the vast field of thermodynamic constitutive theory, beginning from a historical perspective and concluding with outstanding questions in recent research.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Continuum Thermodynamics and Constitutive Theory
Authors: Christina Papenfuß
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43989-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43988-0Published: 17 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43991-0Published: 17 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43989-7Published: 16 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 238
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Thermodynamics, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Materials Science, general