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Mauro Francaviglia, Liliana Restuccia, Patrizia Rogolino

Entropy production in polarizable bodies with internal variables

A model of polarizable media investigated by Maugin and coworkers is considered as the domain of application of a recent method for the geometrization of the thermo-elasticity of continua with internal variables. The polarization together with its space gradient are assumed as state variables expressed in terms of internal variables evolving according to a relaxation law driven by external and internal electric fields. The entropy productions in Clausius-Duhem inequalities are calculated explicitly.

Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0340-0204
Volume: 29, 09/2004
Pages: 221 - 235

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