Extended Thermodynamics
Ruggeri, Tommaso / Müller, Ingo
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 classical laws of thermodynamics has prompted the formulation of extended thermodynamics. After describing the motifs and early evolution of this new...