The transport processes to be taken up here are heat conduction and diffusion plus dielectric relaxation and electrical conduction. The first two are clearly coupled, since 1 The sections of this second part are numbered consecutively to those of the first part/published in Vol. 20, Issue 3, Pages 205-229, Similarly, new bibliographical references start with reference 100, the first 99 references being listed at the end of Part 1.Brought to you by | Purdue University Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 6/10/15 12:58 AM 298 R-E. Neftleton, S. L. Sobolev diffusing molecules can carry energy, and they are often treated together in the same formalism, which would make it difficult not to combine them in a single section. Since the polarization current is a component of the total current, relaxation of electric polarization and of the current of free charges are usually treated together. We add a third sub-section on superfluidity. Applications of the phenomenology of vector processes fall into four classes: (1) Use of reciprocity in calculating linear transport coefficients from models. (2) Non-linear effects in heat conduction and diffusion. (3) temperature and polarization waves. (4) correlation functions. Category (1) is old, since molecular models have given way to molecular dynamics, and effects in (2) are small. Papers on (3) and (4) have tended to give more attention to formulating the theory than to predictions tested against experiment.
Heat conduction and diffusionThe earliest extended thermodynamic treatment [100] of thermal conduction was designed to fit the Cattaneo-Vernotte equation (24) into the scheme of de Groot [12], discussed in Part I, Section 2.2. The phenomenological coefficients were evaluated with the aid of a phonon model of Debye. This work was extended by coupling the phonon component of heat flow to a self-diffusion component [101] and to a binary diffusion flow [102]. The first of these extensions was designed to estimate numerically the coefficient of (Vp) 2 in the free energy density, which was earlier exploited by Cahn and Hilliard [103] to calculate the density profile across a liquid-vapour phase boundary. The extended treatment of binary diffusion [102] led to a formal expression for the thermal diffusion coefficient, but not a numerical value. These papers show how Onsager reciprocity can be exploited, in conjuction with molecular models, in calculating transport coefficients. The models are now old, but the formalism formed the basis of more recent studies, discussed below, of non-linear heat and matter transport. A substantial number of contemporary studies incorporate both heat flow J and viscous pressure P v . Most of these will be discussed in Section 5 on viscoelasticity.