On the second law of thermodynamics and contact geometry

DOI10.1063/1.532316zbMath0908.53015OpenAlexW1978098563MaRDI QIDQ4212631

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Publication date: 10 March 1999

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.532316

zbMATH Keywords

irreversible thermodynamicsequilibriumcontact structureLegendre submanifoldthermodynamic phase space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets in global analysis (58A20) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

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Symmetry transformations in extended irreversible thermodynamics ⋮ On the geometric structure of thermodynamics ⋮ Recent bibliography on extended irreversible thermodynamics and related topics (1995-1998)

Cites Work

• Contact structure in thermodynamic theory
• The kinetic foundations of extended irreversible thermodynamics revisited
• Extended kinetic theory
• On the moment methods and irreversible thermodynamics
• On the kinetic theory of rarefied gases

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