Multiscale Thermo-Dynamics : : Introduction to GENERIC / / Václav Klika, Michal Pavelka, Miroslav Grmela.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Pavelka, Michal,; Grmela, Miroslav,; Klika, Václav,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 279 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Levels of description --; 3. Hamiltonian mechanics --; 4. Irreversible evolution --; 5. Reversible and irreversible evolution --; 6. Multicomponent systems --; 7. Contact geometry --; A Mathematical aspects --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110350951; 9783110719550; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604221; 9783110603224
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110350951
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Václav Klika, Michal Pavelka, Miroslav Grmela.

One common feature of new emerging technologies is the fusion of the very small (nano) scale and the large scale engineering. The classical environment provided by single scale theories, as for instance by the classical hydrodynamics, is not anymore satisfactory. The main challenge is to keep the important details while still be able to keep the overall picture and simplicity. It is the thermodynamics that addresses this challenge. Our main reason for writing this book is to explain such general viewpoint of thermodynamics and to illustrate it on a very wide range of examples. ContentsLevels of descriptionHamiltonian mechanicsIrreversible evolutionReversible and irreversible evolutionMulticomponent systemsContact geometryAppendix: Mathematical aspects