Sommario
Mediante tecniche presentate in un precedente lavoro costruisco campi macroscopici ed equazioni di bilancio per ogni componente di una miscela cosi come per la miscela nel suo complesso. Le equazioni di bilancio per la massa, la quantità di moto e l'energia per i costituenti sono simili a quelle proposte da TRUESDELL, ma qui mancano i termini di sorgente, inoltre il tensore degli sforzi e il vettore flusso termico hanno interpretazioni diverse da quelle di TRUESDELL. Mostro che i campi macroscopici, e le equazioni che essi soddisfano, si ottengono sommando opportunamente gli analoghi costruiti per i componenti. Malgrado le forze interne su un componente vengano rappresentate mediante un tensore degli sforzi, mostro che questa teoria non da luogo al paradosso analizzato e risolto da GURTIN, OLIVER & WILLIAMS.
Summary
We use the techniques of an earlier paper to construct gross quantities and equations of balance for each constituent of a mixture as well as for the whole mixture. The equations of balance for mass, linear momentum and energy for the constituents are similar to those proposed by TRUESDELL, but here growth terms are absent and the peculiar stress tensor and heat flux vector have different interpretations than TRUESDELL's. We also show that the gross fields for the mixture, and the equations they satisfy, can be obtained by suitably adding their analogues for the constituents. In spite of the fact that the internal forces on the αth constituent are described by means of a peculiar stress tensor Tα, we show that this theory does not give rise to the paradox considered and resolved by GURTIN, OLIVER & WILLIAMS.
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Pitteri, M. On the equations of balance for mixtures constructed by means of classical statistical mechanics. Meccanica 23, 3–10 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01561003
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