Balance systems and the variational bicomplex

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2011.063zbMATH Open1244.49076arXiv1101.5375OpenAlexW2147502088MaRDI QIDQ431322FDOQ431322

Authors: S. Preston 

Publication date: 26 June 2012

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work we show that the systems of balance equations (balance systems) of continuum thermodynamics occupy a natural place in the variational bicomplex formalism. We apply the vertical homotopy decomposition to get a local splitting (in a convenient domain) of a general balance system as the sum of a Lagrangian part and a complemental "pure non-Lagrangian" balance system. In the case when derivatives of the dynamical fields do not enter the constitutive relations of the balance system, the "pure non-Lagrangian" systems coincide with the systems introduced by S. Godunov [Soviet Math. Dokl. 2 (1961), 947-948] and, later, asserted as the canonical hyperbolic form of balance systems in [M"uller I., Ruggeri T., Rational extended thermodynamics, 2nd ed., Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy, Vol. 37, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5375

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zbMATH Keywords

variational bicomplexbalance equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decomposition methods (49M27) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Thermodynamics in solid mechanics (74A15) PDEs in connection with classical thermodynamics and heat transfer (35Q79)

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