Homogeneous Fluid Bodies with Viscosity

Abstract

In Chapter I we studied an important class of physical systems, homogeneous fluid bodies, employing concepts and methods already available to the pioneers of thermodynamics. The systems to be discussed here, called homogeneous fluid bodies with viscosity, are intended to provide, first of all, a more complete model of liquids and gases than do homogeneous fluid bodies and, second of all, a refinement of the notion of homogeneous viscous filaments introduced in Chapter VI. In contrast to the approach taken in Chapter I, we here shall avail ourselves of the modern conceptual framework developed in Chapters II through V. This will provide not only a review of that material, as it is applied to a specific class of physical systems, but also a useful comparison of the classical and modern approaches.