The paper deals with the meaning of non-equilibrium temperatures in nanosystems with an internal ... more The paper deals with the meaning of non-equilibrium temperatures in nanosystems with an internal variable, describing defects inside them, and implications on heat transport. In equilibrium all definitions of temperature lead to the same value, but in nonequi-librium steady states they lead to different values, giving information on different degrees of freedom. We discuss the caloric and entropic non-equilibrium temperatures and the relations among them, in defective nanosystems (crystals with dislocations or porous channels, carbon nanotubes in a solid matrix and so on), crossed by an external energy flux. Here, we present a model for nanocrystals with dislocation defects submitted to an external energy flux. The dislocations may have a strong influence on the effective thermal conductivity, and their own dynamics may be coupled in relevant way to the heat flux dynamics. In the linear case the constitutive relations, the rate equations for the internal variable and the heat flux are worked out and a generalized telegraphic heat equation is derived in the anisotropic and isotropic case, describing the thermal disturbances with finite velocity.
International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, 2012
ABSTRACT In this work we investigate a material point model (MP-model) and exploit the geometrica... more ABSTRACT In this work we investigate a material point model (MP-model) and exploit the geometrical meaning of the "entropy form" introduced by Coleman and Owen. We show that a modification of the thermodynamical phase space (studied and exploited in numerous works) is an appropriate setting for the development of the MP-model in different physical situations. This approach allows to formulate the MP-model and the corresponding entropy form in terms similar to those of homogeneous thermodynamics. Closeness condition of the entropy form is reformulated as the requirement that admissible processes curves belong to the (extended) constitutive surfaces foliating the extended thermodynamical phase space of the model over the space X of basic variables. Extended constitutive surfaces ΣS,κ are described as the Legendre submanifolds ΣS of the space shifted by the flow of Reeb vector field. This shift is controlled by the entropy production function κ. We determine which contact Hamiltonian dynamical systems ξK are tangent to the surfaces ΣS,κ, introduce conformally Hamiltonian systems μξK where conformal factor μ characterizes the increase of entropy along the trajectories. These considerations are then illustrated by applying them to the Coleman–Owen model of thermoelastic point.
In a previous paper a mathematical model was developed for the dynamics of activation and clonal ... more In a previous paper a mathematical model was developed for the dynamics of activation and clonal expansion of T cells during the immune response to a single type of antigen challenge, constructed phenomenologically in the macroscopic framework of a thermodynamic theory of continuum mechanics for reacting and proliferating fluid mixtures. The present contribution deals with approximate smooth solutions, called asymptotic waves, of the system of PDEs describing the introduced model, obtained using a suitable perturbative method. In particular, in the one-dimensional case, after deriving the expression of the velocity along the characteristic rays and the equation of the wave front, the transport equation for the first perturbation term of the asymptotic solution is obtained. Finally, it is shown that this transport equation can be reduced to an equation similar to Burgers equation.
Abstract In questo lavoro si considera il moto unidimensionale di un fluido termoviscoso stokesi... more Abstract In questo lavoro si considera il moto unidimensionale di un fluido termoviscoso stokesiano, utilizzando la teoria di Müller [2]. Nel caso di un fluido ideale monoatomico si determinano le limitazioni cui devono soddisfare le variabili di campo affinché il sistema sia iperbolico e si studia la propagazione delle discontinuità deboli in uno stato uniforme imperturbato. Infine si determina l'espressione del
The paper deals with the meaning of non-equilibrium temperatures in nanosystems with an internal ... more The paper deals with the meaning of non-equilibrium temperatures in nanosystems with an internal variable, describing defects inside them, and implications on heat transport. In equilibrium all definitions of temperature lead to the same value, but in nonequi-librium steady states they lead to different values, giving information on different degrees of freedom. We discuss the caloric and entropic non-equilibrium temperatures and the relations among them, in defective nanosystems (crystals with dislocations or porous channels, carbon nanotubes in a solid matrix and so on), crossed by an external energy flux. Here, we present a model for nanocrystals with dislocation defects submitted to an external energy flux. The dislocations may have a strong influence on the effective thermal conductivity, and their own dynamics may be coupled in relevant way to the heat flux dynamics. In the linear case the constitutive relations, the rate equations for the internal variable and the heat flux are worked out and a generalized telegraphic heat equation is derived in the anisotropic and isotropic case, describing the thermal disturbances with finite velocity.
International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, 2012
ABSTRACT In this work we investigate a material point model (MP-model) and exploit the geometrica... more ABSTRACT In this work we investigate a material point model (MP-model) and exploit the geometrical meaning of the "entropy form" introduced by Coleman and Owen. We show that a modification of the thermodynamical phase space (studied and exploited in numerous works) is an appropriate setting for the development of the MP-model in different physical situations. This approach allows to formulate the MP-model and the corresponding entropy form in terms similar to those of homogeneous thermodynamics. Closeness condition of the entropy form is reformulated as the requirement that admissible processes curves belong to the (extended) constitutive surfaces foliating the extended thermodynamical phase space of the model over the space X of basic variables. Extended constitutive surfaces ΣS,κ are described as the Legendre submanifolds ΣS of the space shifted by the flow of Reeb vector field. This shift is controlled by the entropy production function κ. We determine which contact Hamiltonian dynamical systems ξK are tangent to the surfaces ΣS,κ, introduce conformally Hamiltonian systems μξK where conformal factor μ characterizes the increase of entropy along the trajectories. These considerations are then illustrated by applying them to the Coleman–Owen model of thermoelastic point.
In a previous paper a mathematical model was developed for the dynamics of activation and clonal ... more In a previous paper a mathematical model was developed for the dynamics of activation and clonal expansion of T cells during the immune response to a single type of antigen challenge, constructed phenomenologically in the macroscopic framework of a thermodynamic theory of continuum mechanics for reacting and proliferating fluid mixtures. The present contribution deals with approximate smooth solutions, called asymptotic waves, of the system of PDEs describing the introduced model, obtained using a suitable perturbative method. In particular, in the one-dimensional case, after deriving the expression of the velocity along the characteristic rays and the equation of the wave front, the transport equation for the first perturbation term of the asymptotic solution is obtained. Finally, it is shown that this transport equation can be reduced to an equation similar to Burgers equation.
Abstract In questo lavoro si considera il moto unidimensionale di un fluido termoviscoso stokesi... more Abstract In questo lavoro si considera il moto unidimensionale di un fluido termoviscoso stokesiano, utilizzando la teoria di Müller [2]. Nel caso di un fluido ideale monoatomico si determinano le limitazioni cui devono soddisfare le variabili di campo affinché il sistema sia iperbolico e si studia la propagazione delle discontinuità deboli in uno stato uniforme imperturbato. Infine si determina l'espressione del
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