Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2007 / iii / Paper 76 / 4 / a / Solution

Use the material-first nominal stress tensor convention $P_{Ii}$, with $F_{iI}$ the deformation gradient. For any fixed reference material subvolume $V_0$ with outward unit normal $N$, conservation of energy isHere $b$ is body force per mass, $r$ is heat supply per mass and $q$ 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 iswhere $\theta >0$ is temperature and $q/\theta$ is the thermodynamic entropy flux.

Since the subvolume is arbitrary, the divergence theorem givesExpand $\dot{U}=U_{,F_{iI}}{\dot{F}}_{iI}+U_{,\eta }\dot{\eta }+U_{,{\xi }_r}{\dot{\xi }}_r$ and eliminate the heat supply between these relations. The Clausius-Duhem inequality becomesUnder the usual local constitutive independence assumptions, the reversible mechanical and thermal variations can have either sign. The Coleman-Noll procedure therefore imposesDefine the thermodynamic force conjugate to an internal variable by $f_r=-{\rho }_0{U}_{,{\xi }_r}$. The energy balance and the remaining entropy constraint now give, respectively,