Thermodynamic foundations of locally gradient generalized thermomechanics

We consider the thermodynamic foundation of locally gradient generalized thermomechanics. In describing the local situation we take account of the gradient of the temperature field and the chemical potential field, as well as the inertial effects of mechanical, thermal, and self-diffusive forms of motion.Translated fromMatematicheskie Metody i Fiziko-Mekhanicheskie Polya, Issue 35, 1992, pp. 20–24.