History of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics -- Energy Methods -- Evolution Construction for Homogeneous Thermodynamic Systems -- Viscoelasticity -- Viscoplasticity -- The Thermodynamic Relaxation Modulus as a Multi-scale Bridge from the Atomic Level to the Bulk Material -- Contact Geometric Structure for Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics. Bifurcations in the Generalized Energy Function -- Evolution Construction for Non-homogeneous Thermodynamic Systems -- Electromagnetism and Joule Heating -- Fracture. ¡.
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Maximum Dissipation: Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure explores the thermodynamics of non-equilibrium processes in materials. The book develops a general technique created in order to construct nonlinear evolution equations describing non-equilibrium processes, while also developing a geometric context for non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Solid materials are the main focus in this volume, but the construction is shown to also apply to fluids. This volume also: *Explains the theory behind thermodynamically-consistent construction of non-linear evolution equations for non.
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Maximum dissipation non-equilibrium thermodynamics and its geometric structure.