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The objective of extended thermodynamics of molecular ideal gases is the determination of the 17 fields ofmass density, velocity, energy density, pressure deviator, heat flux, intrinsic energy density and intrinsic heat flux.
The intrinsic energy represents the rotational or the vibrational energy of the molecules.
The necessary field equations are based upon balance laws and the system of equations is closed by constitutive relations which are characteristic for the gas under consideration.
The generality of the constitutive relations is restricted by theprinciple of material frame indifference, and by the entropy principle.
These principles reduce the constitutive coefficients of all fluxes to the thermal and caloric equation of state of the gas and provide inequalities for the transport coefficients.
The transport coefficients can be related to the shear viscosity, the heat conductivity, and the coefficients of self-diffusion and attenuation of sound waves, so that the field equations become quite specific. The theory is in perfect agreement with the kinetic theory of molecular gases.
It is shown that in non-equilibrium the temperature is discontinuous at thermometric walls. The dynamic pressure and the volume viscosity, are discussed and it is shown how extended thermodynamics and ordinary thermodynamics are related.
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Kremer, G.M. Extended thermodynamics of molecular ideal gases. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn 1, 21–45 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01125884
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