W. Muschik
Fundamentals of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
in W. Muschik (Ed.): Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics
with applications to solids, CISM courses and lectures No. 336
Springer, Wien New York, 1993, 1-63
Starting out with a survey on different thermodynamical theories
concepts of nonclassical thermodynamics such as state space, process,
projection, and nonequilibrium contact quantity are discussed. Using
the dissipation inequality for discrete systems the existence of a
non-negative entropy production is investigated. Internal variables
are defined by introducing concepts concerning their properties. Then
field formulation of thermodynamics is achieved by use of
nonequilibrium contact quantities introduced above. Extended
thermodynamics is shortly discussed in comparison with the
non-extended one. Material axioms and how to exploit the dissipation
inequality are items of the last two chapters.