Thermodynamics and Constitutive Equations: Lectures Given at the 2nd 1982 Session of the Centro Internationale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held at ... July 2, 1982 (Lecture Notes in Physics, 228)

On thermodynamics and constitutive relations.- Actions for general thermodynamical systems.- Thermodynamics and the constitutive relations for second sound in crystals.- Dissipation,stabiltzation and the second law of thermodynamics.- Rational thermodynamics of mixtures of fluids.- On nonstationary thermodynamics, relativistic acceleration waves in ideal fluids.- Some thermodynamical problems in magnetic theory.- Relaxation phenomena via hidden variable thermodynamics.- Conservation laws and symmetric hyperbolic system for a thermoviscous fluid.