THERMODYNAMICS OF IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES: THE EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF THE ONSAGER RECIPROCAL RELATIONS

Technical Report · Thu Jul 30 04:00:00 EDT 1959

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/4220969· OSTI ID:4220969

Miller, D G

In the last twenty years a thermodynamic theory of irreversible processes (TIP) has been vigorously developed which has been able to treat irreversible phenomena in a detailed way. The present macroscopic form of the theory was suggested primarily by the statistical mechanical investigations of Onsager. The presently available experimental data are collected for a variety of quite different irreversible phenomena and it is shown that this evidence does indeed verify the Onsager Reciprocal Relations. Thermoelectricity, electro- kinetics, transference in electrolytic solutions, isothermal diffusion, heat diffusion, heat conduction in anisotropic solids, and thermogalvanomagnetic effects are the phenomena considered in detail. (W.D.M.)

• Research Organization: California. Univ., Livermore. Lawrence Radiation Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• NSA Number: NSA-14-003865
• OSTI ID: 4220969
• Report Number(s): UCRL-5644-T
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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