Dissipativity conditions and variational principles for the heat flux equation with memory (Q1176210)

New restrictions, which turn out to be necessary and sufficient conditions for the second law of thermodynamics for cyclic processes, are found for the constitutive equations of a rigid heat conductor with linear memory. In addition, a stationary principle is given for the corresponding integrodifferential problem and it is shown that the previous restrictions allow one to formulate a minimum principle for it.