Constitutive Settings with regard to Energy- and Entropy-Balances in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics: the Thermodynamical Verification

Abstract

Constitutive equations have to be in agreement with the energy- and entropy- balances. For achieving that, the procedure of thermodynamical verification is introduced: Because heat flux and entropy flux as well as the time differentials of internal energy and entropy are not independent of each other, energy- and entropy-balances are connected with each other by so-called internal settings laying down the theoretical frame of the applied material description which is characterized by additional constitutive settings.