This volume describes applications of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to complex systems. These are characterized by an involved form of Gibbs equation and they include systems such as solutions of macromolecules, magnetic hysteresis bodies, viscoelastic fluids and high temperature gradients.
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Thermodynamics of complex systems; thermodynamics and extremum principles in viscoelasticity; on extended thermodynamics of ideal and real gases; reciprocity in extended thermodynamics; thermodynamic aspects of memory functions for transport coefficients; chemically reacting systems in extended irreversible thermodynamics; thermal momentum, heat inertia and a macroscopic extension of de Broglie thermodynamics; the conservation laws for continuity equations with sources. Part contents.