THEORY OF GENERALIZED THERMODYNAMIC
SYSTEMS WITH MEMORY 
A. I. Shnip

UDC 536.7

A theory of the generalized nonlinear thermodynamic systems 
with memory is developed. It is shown how different specific physical 
systems can be represented in the context of a generalized formalism. 
Necessary and sufficient conditions of fulfillment of the second law 
of thermodynamics for such nonlinear systems are found. These conditions 
contain, as a particular case, the previously found similar conditions 
for linear systems. A procedure of constructing the nonequilibrium 
thermodynamic potential for such systems is developed.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences
of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 21-31, January-February, 2002. 
Original article submitted June 15, 2001.

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