New formulation of local-equilibrium thermodynamics
This study points out that the conventional separation of balance equations for energy in fluids into a flow and a source term is not thermodynamically valid. It corrects this inadequacy and thereby identifies an expression for the nonnegative rate of entropy production that is a sum of products of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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AIP Publishing LLC
2019-07-01
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| Series: | AIP Advances |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5108793 |