Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics
This is the 4th edition of the highly acclaimed monograph on Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics, a theory that goes beyond the classical theory of irreversible processes. In contrast to the classical approach, the basic variables describing the system a
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Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics Fourth Edition
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Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics
David Jou José Casas-Vázquez Georgy Lebon ●
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Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics Fourth Edition
David Jou Autonomous University of Barcelona Bellaterra, Catalonia Spain
Georgy Lebon University of Liège Belgium
José Casas-Vázquez Autonomous University of Barcelona Bellaterra, Catalonia Spain
ISBN 978-90-481-3073-3 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3074-0 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3074-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009941949 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface to the Fourth Edition
The fast progress in many areas of research related to non-equilibrium thermodynamics has prompted us to write a fourth edition of this book. Like in the previous editions, our main concern is to open the subject to the widest audience, including students, teachers, and researchers in physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, and materials sciences. Our objective is to present a general view on several open problems arising in non-equilibrium situations, and to afford a wide perspective of applications illustrating their practical outcomes and consequences. A better comprehension of the foundations is generally correlated to an increase of the range of applications, implying mutual feedback and cross fertilization. Truly, thermodynamic methods are widely used in many areas of science but, surprisingly, the active dynamism of thermodynamics as a field on its own is not sufficiently perceived outside a relatively reduced number of specialized researchers. Extended irreversible thermodynamics (EIT) goes beyond the classical formalisms based on the local equilibrium hypothesis; it was also referred to in an earlier publication by the authors (Lebon et al. 1992) as a thermodynamics of the third type, as it provides a bridge between classical irreversible thermodynamics and rational thermodynamics, enlarging at the same time their respective range of application. The salient feature of the theory is that the fluxes are incorporated into the set of basic variables. The urge and interest of elevating the fluxes to a central role is illustrated by our everyday experience, the fluxes of people, of goods, of money, of energy, of pollutants, of information, are among the main protagonists of our epoch of globalization. Lowering or exceeding some critical values of the fluxes may be determinant in the survival or collapse of our economical and (or) social system as it has been dramatically illustrated b
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