On the role of geometry in statistical mechanics and thermodynamics I: Geometric perspective

DOI10.1063/5.0099923zbMATH Open1509.82072arXiv2205.10315MaRDI QIDQ6399732FDOQ6399732

Oğul Esen, Miroslav Grmela, Michal Pavelka

Publication date: 19 May 2022

Abstract: This paper contains a fully geometric formulation of the General Equation for Non-Equilibrium Reversible-Irreversible Coupling (GENERIC). Although GENERIC, which is the sum of Hamiltonian mechanics and gradient dynamics, is a framework unifying a vast range of models in non-equilibrium thermodynamics, it has unclear geometric structure, due to the diverse geometric origins of Hamiltonian mechanics and gradient dynamics. The difference can be overcome by cotangent lifts of the dynamics, which leads, for instance, to a Hamiltonian form of gradient dynamics. Moreover, the lifted vector fields can be split into their holonomic and vertical representatives, which provides a geometric method of dynamic reduction. The lifted dynamics can be also given physical meaning, here called the rate-GENERIC. Finally, the lifts can be formulated within contact geometry, where the second law of thermodynamics is explicitly contained within the evolution equations.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03)

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