Lagrangian entropy inequality 2026-10-14
The local entropy balance has nonnegative production, with heat supply and thermodynamic entropy flux at positive temperature . Its integral version holds on every material reference subvolume.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 76 4 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
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 isHere 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 iswhere is temperature and is the thermodynamic entropy flux.
Since the subvolume is arbitrary, the divergence theorem givesExpand 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 . The energy balance and the remaining entropy constraint now give, respectively,