Entropy Analysis of Implicit Heat Fluxes in Multi-Temperature Mixtures

Abstract

We propose new implicit constitutive relations for the heat fluxes of a two-temperature mixture of fluids. These relations are frame-indifferent forms. However, classical explicit forms of the stress tensors and the interaction forces (specified as explicit forms of constitutive relations) as given in mixture theory are used. The focus here is to establish constraints imposed on the implicit terms in the heat fluxes due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Our analysis establishes that the magnitude of the explicit entropy production is equal to or greater than that of the implicit entropy production.