Rational Extended Thermodynamics

by Ingo Mueller and Tommaso Ruggeri

Ordinary thermodynamics provides reliable results when the thermodynamic fields are smooth, in the sense that there are no steep gradients and no rapid changes. In fluids and gases this is the domain of the equations of Navier-Stokes and Fourier. Extended thermodynamics becomes relevant for rapidly varying and strongly inhomogeneous processes. Thus the propagation of high- frequency waves, and the shape of shock waves, and the regression of small-scale...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461274605
• ISBN13: 9781461274605
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"