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A note on Onsager’s relations


Author: M. Šilhavý
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 52 (1994), 469-479
MSC: Primary 73F10; Secondary 73B30, 73F99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1292198
MathSciNet review: MR1292198
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Abstract: A nonlinear viscoelastic material with the heat flux obeying a generalization of Cattaneo’s law is considered. It is shown that for slow processes with small gradients of temperature the exact constitutive equations can be approximated by those of a linear viscous material with Fourier heat conduction. As a consequence of the thermodynamic restrictions on the original constitutive equations, the approximate constitutive equations are shown to satisfy the principle of local equilibrium for energy and entropy, and the kinetic coefficients giving the viscous stress and heat flux vector satisfy Onsager’s relations.


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