文档介绍：David Jou ● José Casas-Vázquez ● y Lebon
Extended Irreversible
Thermodynamics
Fourth Edition
David Jou y Lebon
Autonomous University of Barcelona University of Liège
Bellaterra, Catalonia Belgium
Spain
José Casas-Vázquez
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Bellaterra, Catalonia
Spain
ISBN 978-90-481-3073-3 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3074-0
DOI -90-481-3074-0
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Preface to the Fourth Edition
The fast progress in many areas of research related to non-equilibrium thermo-
dynamics has prompted us to write a fourth edition of this book. Like in the
previous editions, our main concern is to open the subject to the widest audi-
ence, including students, teachers, and researchers in physics, chemistry, engineer-
ing, biology, and materials sciences. Our objective is to present a general view
on several open problems arising in non-equilibrium situations, and to afford a
wide perspective of applications illustrating their practical es and conse-
quences. A prehension of the foundations is generally correlated to an
increase of the range of applications, implying mutual feedback and cross fertil-
ization. Truly, thermodynamic methods are widely used in many areas of science
but, surprisingly, the active dynamism of thermodynamics as a field on its own
is not sufficiently perceived outside a relatively reduced number of special