Nonequilibrium Systems

Lecturer(s)

Prof. H.C. Öttinger

Hour(s) of lecture(s), exercise(s) and credit points

2L
2E
4CP

Teaching goals

To provide, illustrate, and practice the thermodynamic approach to describe time-evolving systems on a coarse-grained level in full accordance with the fundamental laws of thermodynamics

Summary and outline

Introduction: Thermodynamics and Rigor, Formulating versus Deriving Irreversibility, Beyond Balance Equations, Framework, Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Stationary States, Fluctuations, Historical Context, Mechanics and Geometry, Functional Derivatives

Hydrodynamics: Balance Equations, Constructing Building Blocks

Linear Irreversible Thermodynamics: Forces and Fluxes, Transformation Behavior, Curie's Principle, Stationary States, Onsager-Casimir Relations, Thermoelectric Effects

Complex Fluids: Basic Rheological Properties, Linear Viscoelasticity, Nonlinear Material Behavior, Tensors and Scalars as Configurational Variables, Configurational Distribution Functions, Dumbbell Model of Polymer Solutions, Reptation Model of Polymer Melts

Literature

• H. C. Öttinger, Beyond Equilibrium Thermodynamics (Wiley, New York, 2005)
• S. R. de Groot and P. Mazur, Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic (Dover Publications, New York, 1984)
• H. J. Kreuzer, Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and its Statistical Foundations (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981)

The course is based on Part 1 of the book Beyond Equilibrium Thermodynamics »»