Microscopic rheological models and extended irreversible thermodynamics
Authors:
P. C. Dauby and G. Lebon
Affiliation:
1 Université de Liège, Institut de Physique B5, Sart Tilman, B 4000 Liège Belgium, Belgium
2 Départment de Mécanique, U.C.L, B 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Abstract:
The expressions of the constitutive equations of dilute polymer solutions, as predicted by the main microscopic rheological models, are shown to be in agreement with these derived from extended irreversible thermodynamics. Accord between the thermodynamic and Boltzmann microscopic expressions of entropy is also completed for steady state flows.