Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Progress in variational formulations for macroscopic processes / Stanislaw Sieniutycz and Henrik Farkas -- Lagrange formalism and irreversible thermodynamics : the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the principle of least entropy production / Karl-Heinz Anthony -- Fundamental problems of variational principles : objectivity, symmetries, and construction / Tamás Matolcsi, P. Ván, and J. Verhás -- Semi-inverse method for establishment of variational theory for incremental thermoelasticity with voids / Ji-Huan He and Juan Zhang -- Variational formulations of relativistic elasticity and thermoelasticity / Jerzy Kijowski and Giulio Magli -- The geometric variational framework for entropy in general relativity / L. Fatibene, Mauro Francaviglia, and M. Raiteri -- Translational and rotational motion of a uniaxial liquid crystal as derived using Hamilton's principle of least action / Brian J. Edwards -- An introduction to variational derivation of the pseudomomentum conservation in thermodrodynamics / Janusz Badur and Jordan Badur -- Towards a variational mechanics of dissipative continua? / Gérard A. Maugin and Vassilios K. Kalpakides -- On the principle of least action and its role in the alternative theory of nonequilibrium processes / Michael Lauser -- Variational principles for the linearly damped flow of barotropic and Madelung-type fluids / Heinz-Jürgen Wagner -- Least action principle for dissipative processes / Katalin Gambár -- Hamiltonian formulation as a basis of quantized thermal processes / Ferenc Márkus -- Conservation laws and variational conditions for wave propagation in planarly stratified media / A. Morro and G. Caviglia -- Master equations and path-integral formulation of variational principles for reactions / Bernard Gaveau, Michel Moreau, and János Tóth -- Variational principles for the speed of traveling fronts of reaction-diffusion equations / Rafael D. Benguria and M. Cristina Depassier -- The Fermat principle and chemical waves / Henrik Farkas, Kristóf Kály-Kullai, and Stanislaw Sieniutycz -- Fisher variational principle and thermodynamics / A. Plastino, A.R. Plastino, and M. Casas -- Generalized entropy and the Hamiltonian structure of statistical mechanics / Murilo Pereira de Almeida -- Some observations of entropy extrema in physical processes / David M. Paulus and Richard A. Gaggioli -- On a variational principle for the drag in linear hydrodynamics / B.I.M. ten Bosch and A.J. Weisenborn -- A variational principle for the impinging-streams problem / J.P. Curtis -- Variational principles in stability analysis of composite structures / Pzhong Qiao and Luyang Shan -- Field variational principles for irreversible energy and mass transfer / Stanislaw Sieniutycz -- Variational principles for irreversible hyperbolic transport / F. Vázquez, J.A. del Río, and M. López de Haro -- A variational principle for transport processes in continuous systems : derivation and application / Ernest S. Geskin -- Do the Navier-Strokes equations admit of a variational formulation? / Enrico Sciubba -- Entropy-generation minimization in steady-state heat conduction / Zygmunt Kolenda [and others] -- The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of radiation interaction / Christopher Essex, Dallas C. Kennedy, and Sidney A. Bludman -- Optimal finite-time endoreversible processes : general theory and applications / Harald Ries and Wolfgang Spirkl -- Evolutionary Energy Method (EEM) : an aerothermoservoelectroelastic application / Hayrani Öz -- Maximization of ecoexergy in ecosystems / Sven Erik Jørgensen -- Self-organized criticality within the framework of the variational principle / Alexander I. Olemskoi and Dmitrii O. Kharchenko -- Extremum criteria for nonequilibrium states of dissipative macroeconomic systems / Mircea Gligor -- External principles and limiting possibilities of open thermodynamic and economic systems / A.M. Tsirlin and Vladimir Kazakov.