Accession Number:

AD0649818

Title:

AN AXIOMATIC FOUNDATION FOR CONTINUUM THERMODYNAMICS.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

CARNEGIE INST OF TECH PITTSBURGH PA DEPT OF MATHEMATICS

Personal Author(s):

• Gurtin,Morton E.
• Williams,William O.

Report Date:

1967-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

70.0

Abstract:

The report presents a complete set of axioms, based upon physically acceptable gross forms of the laws of thermodynamics, which yield appropriate forms of these laws for continuum physics and find conditions under which these reduce to the classical forms.

Descriptors:

• (*CONTINUUM MECHANICS
• *THERMODYNAMICS)
• ENTROPY
• INEQUALITIES
• THEOREMS
• HEAT FLUX
• MEASURE THEORY
• KINEMATICS

Subject Categories:

• Theoretical Mathematics
• Mechanics
• Thermodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE