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On the existence of a single temperature in continuum thermodynamics

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A global hypothesis involving the heat flux and the entropy flux is shown to be equivalent to the existence of temperature.

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Es wird gezeigt, dass eine globale Hypothese für die Wärmezufuhr und Entropiezufuhr mit der Existenze der Temperatur äquivalent ist.

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  1. Dept. of Mathematics, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Morton E. Gurtin

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Gurtin, M.E. On the existence of a single temperature in continuum thermodynamics. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (ZAMP) 27, 775–779 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01595128

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