Extended Thermodynamics /

Physicists firmly believe that the differential equations of nature should be hyperbolic so as to exclude action at a distance; yet the equations of irreversible thermodynamics - those of Navier-Stokes and Fourier - are parabolic. This incompatibility between the expectation of physicists and the cl...

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Main Author:	Müller, Ingo
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Ruggeri, Tommaso
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Springer US, 1993.
Series:	Springer tracts in natural philosophy ; 37.
Subjects:	Physics. Thermodynamics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book