A note on the relation between the hypothesis of local equilibrium and the Clausius-Duhem inequality

DOI10.1515/JNET.1990.15.3.193MaRDI QIDQ2640401zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph Kestin

Publication date 1990

Published in Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1515/jnet.1990.15.3.193

zbMATH Keywords

Clausius-Duhem inequalityconstitutive equationsequilibrium states of the systemnonequilibrium statesstate space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of fluid mechanics (76A02) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05)

Review text

The paper is devoted to different interpretations of Clausius-Duhem inequality (DCI) with regard to the domain on which constitutive equations are defined: The ``physical space \((x\in {\mathbb{R}}^ 3)\) is rigorously distinguished from the ``state space which is spanned by all equilibrium states of the system. By this distinction (a fiber bundle \({\mathbb{R}}^ 3\) consisting of the nonequilibrium states of the system is not introduced) the possibility of two interpretations of the CDI arises: On the ``physical space we get the one containing nonequilibrium contact quantities [\textit{W. Muschik}, ibid. 8, No.3, 219-228 (1983)], on the ``state space we get the usual CDI of irreversible thermodynamics including a nonnegative entropy production, an unexpected fact because the ``state space was defined only to include equilibrium states. The solution is that the ``state space includes the internal variables as independent variables, and therefore it can not be the equilibrium subspace [\textit{W. Muschik}, ibid. 15, No.2, 127-137 (1990)]. Consequently the accompanying processes introduced by a projection of the ``physical space onto the ``state space are not reversible, and the existence of the assumed equation \(dS=dQ^ 0/T\) on the ``state space is doubtful. These difficulties are avoidable by introducing a comprehensive nonequilibrium state space and an embedding axiom [\textit{J. Bataille} and the author, ibid. 4, No.4, 228-229 (1979)]. Finally a distance between equilibrium and nonequilibrium states is introduced by the Deborah number.

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