Dissipative electromagnetism from a nonequilibrium thermodynamics perspective
Statistical Mechanics
2015-05-14 v1
Abstract
Dissipative effects in electromagnetism on macroscopic scales are examined by coarse graining the microscopic Maxwell equations with respect to time. We illustrate a procedure to derive the dissipative effects on the macroscopic scale by using a Green-Kubo type expression in terms of the microscopic fluctuations and the correlations between them. The resulting macroscopic Maxwell equations are formulated within the General Equation for the Non-Equilibrium Reversible-Irreversible Coupling (GENERIC) framework, accounting also for inhomogeneous temperature.
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@article{arxiv.1001.0899,
title = {Dissipative electromagnetism from a nonequilibrium thermodynamics perspective},
author = {Asja Jelic and Markus Hütter and Hans Christian Öttinger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.0899},
year = {2015}
}
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19 pages