Thermodynamic formalism for transport coefficients with an application to the shear modulus and shear viscosity
Thermodynamic formalism for transport coefficients with an application to the shear modulus and shear viscosity
We discuss Onsager's thermodynamic formalism for transport coefficients and apply it to the calculation of the shear modulus and shear viscosity of a monodisperse system of repulsive particles. We focus on the concept of extensive "distance" and intensive "field" conjugated via a Fenchel-Legendre transform involving a thermodynamic(-like) potential, which allows …