Coleman-Noll procedure 2026-10-14
Requiring the Clausius-Duhem inequality for independent reversible mechanical and thermal variations constrains a constitutive equation. For it gives and . Combining the Lagrangian internal energy balance with the Lagrangian entropy inequality leaves . The independence assumptions are part of the constitutive argument.
Let and use a fixed arbitrary material subvolume in the reference configuration, with outward unit normal . The reference mass density is time independent. The global momentum conservation law is
The divergence theorem, differentiation under the integral, and arbitrariness of give
The global conservation of energy law includes both internal energy and kinetic energy:
Here is outgoing heat flux per reference area. Localizing gives
Subtract the scalar product of the local momentum conservation law with . Since , this proves the Lagrangian internal energy balance
For positive temperature , the global entropy inequality is
Its local excess is a nonnegative production density . Expanding the divergence of proves the Lagrangian entropy inequality in the requested equality form:
No constitutive assumption on the heat flux was needed for these balance identities.
For the reference-configuration jump balances, make the orientation convention explicit. Write and let point from the minus side to the plus side. Let be the actual interface speed in direction . A signed level function with the plus side obeys on the interface. For , the singular time derivative is ; the singular reference divergence of is . Thus a local conservation law bounded sources has the Rankine-Hugoniot condition
This is also the shrinking moving-pillbox calculation of the global law: finite volume supplies have no surviving surface term.
To match the displayed positive-sign momentum jump in the paper, use its speed parameter as , so the interface travels in direction . Assuming continuous and no surface force or energy supply, the jump laws are then
and, from ,
The last inequality is nonnegative entropy production concentrated on the interface. Temperature and flux in the entropy term are the traces on their respective sides; one cannot take a common temperature outside the jump unless it is continuous.
If is instead defined as the interface speed in direction , all three terms above acquire a minus sign. In particular the printed positive-sign momentum formula requires the opposite speed convention; changing just the order of the jump does not remove this convention issue. If reference density is discontinuous, replace by the jump of the complete conserved density.
An equivalent internal-energy jump follows by subtracting the kinetic-energy jump using , where :
The averaged traction appears because ; using a one-sided traction would generally be incorrect.
Take any fixed material subvolume of the reference configuration, with outward normal vector , current particle velocity , and positive temperature . The first law of thermodynamics, including kinetic energy, is
The heat-flux sign is negative because is outward. The Second law of thermodynamics supplies the corresponding integral Lagrangian entropy inequality:
The temperature in each supply or flux term is the local temperature, not a common temperature pulled outside the integrals.
Apply the divergence theorem and use the reference momentum conservation equation . In the total-energy equation, the kinetic derivative cancels the body-force work and the term. Since , the remaining local Lagrangian internal energy balance and Lagrangian entropy inequality are
They hold pointwise because was arbitrary. In particular,
The specific Helmholtz free energy is . Substitution yields its balance
and elimination of the heat supply yields the Clausius-Duhem inequality
For , expand the derivative to obtain
The usual Coleman-Noll procedure admits independent reversible choices of and at a fixed state. Their coefficients must vanish, since either sign and arbitrary magnitude would otherwise violate the inequality. Thus
Internal-variable evolution and heat conduction must satisfy this remaining inequality. Substituting the constitutive relations back into the energy balance gives
The last printed equation is missing a factor on its internal-variable term. The PDF defines with per unit mass, so the expression above is the dimensionally consistent consequence. Equivalently define the volumetric thermodynamic force conjugate to an internal variable ; the term is then with no extra density. The two conventions must not be mixed.
For thermoelasticity with a temperature-dependent constraint, admissible rates obey
The reversible coefficient functional need now vanish only on this tangent hyperplane. Hence it can be a scalar multiple of the constraint normal:
Therefore
The reaction terms cancel on admissible rates, leaving the same internal-variable/conduction inequality and entropy heating equation. The multiplier is determined by equilibrium and boundary conditions rather than by the free energy alone.
For linear thermoelasticity with prescribed thermal volume, write , , and . Hold the internal variables fixed in this reversible linearization, and evaluate all derivatives below at and zero reaction. The stress-free reference state has . Since there, first-order nominal and Cauchy stress tensors agree. Their constitutive laws become
where equality of mixed free-energy derivatives gives
The linearized constraint is . Thus volume is thermally prescribed; strict temperature-independent incompressibility corresponds to . The coefficient is an entropy slope; the corresponding volumetric heat capacity at fixed deformation is .
Together with , the first-order thermal balance is . A heat-flux constitutive law completes the evolution problem. The paired signs of the coupling tensor follow from the same free energy, rather than from separately postulated mechanical and thermal equations.
Use the material-first nominal stress tensor convention , with the deformation gradient. For any fixed reference material subvolume with outward unit normal , conservation of energy is
Here is body force per mass, is heat supply per mass and is nominal heat flux. Using momentum conservation to remove the kinetic energy balance gives the integral Lagrangian internal energy balance:
The integral Lagrangian entropy inequality is
where is temperature and is the thermodynamic entropy flux.
Since the subvolume is arbitrary, the divergence theorem gives
Expand and eliminate the heat supply between these relations. The Clausius-Duhem inequality becomes
Under the usual local constitutive independence assumptions, the reversible mechanical and thermal variations can have either sign. The Coleman-Noll procedure therefore imposes
Define the thermodynamic force conjugate to an internal variable by . The energy balance and the remaining entropy constraint now give, respectively,