On the construction of potentials and variational principles in thermodynamics and physics

DOI10.1515/jnet.1991.16.1.39zbMath0722.76002OpenAlexW2086647597MaRDI QIDQ756518

B. Nyíri

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/jnet.1991.16.1.39

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationirreversible processesnonequilibrium thermodynamicspotential functionVariational principlesnatural boundary conditionsmethod of construction of a Lagrangianmethods of Ritz and Galerkin type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35) Foundations of fluid mechanics (76A02)

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Cites Work

• On the wave approach of thermodynamics and some problems of nonlinear theories

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