Continuum mechanics beyond the second law of thermodynamics
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Continuum mechanics beyond the second law of thermodynamics.
The results established in contemporary statistical physics indicating that, on very small space and time scales, the entropy production rate may be negative, motivate a generalization of continuum mechanics. On account of the fluctuation theorem, it is recognized that the evolution of entropy at a material point is stochastically (not deterministically) conditioned by the past history, with an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1364-5021,1471-2946
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2014.0531