Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2010
Abstract
We provide a thermodynamic basis for compressible fluids of a Korteweg type that are characterized by the presence of the dyadic product of the density gradients in the constitutive equation for the Cauchy stress. Our approach does not need to introduce any new or non-standard concepts such as multipolarity or interstitial working and is based on prescribing the constitutive equations for two scalars: the entropy and the entropy production.