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Title The Entropy Principle for Fluid Systems

Name Hans Wilhelm Alt
Country Germany
Email alt@ma.tum.de
Co-Author(s)
Submit Time 2014-02-28 17:13:13
Session
Special Session 39: Interfaces in fluid mechanics
Contents
The entropy inequality in fluids has its counterpart on interfaces, for example, in the positivity of the coefficient in the mean curvature flow. We give an unified distributional formulation of this principle which is consistent with phase field approximations. We refer also to cases where the entropy principle in the limit splits into several inequalities. Therefore, the entropy principle for regular solutions is the only statement one has to postulate.