IJPAM: Volume 42, No. 3 (2008)

THE GALILEAN RELATIVITY PRINCIPLE FOR A NEW
KIND OF SYSTEMS OF BALANCE EQUATIONS
IN EXTENDED THERMODYNAMICS

M.C. Carrisi$^1$, S. Pennisi$^2$
$^{1,2}$Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica
Università degli Studi di Cagliari
72, Via Ospedale, Cagliari, 09124, ITALY
$^1$e-mail: cristina.carrisi@tiscali.it
$^2$e-mail: spennisi@unica.it


Abstract.The classical limit of relativistic extended thermodynamics with many moments suggests to consider a new kind of balance equations: The evolution equations for moments of order $n=0 , .... , N$ and suitable traces of some of higher order. In this paper we show the restrictions imposed to this system by the Galilean relativity principle, aided also by the entropy principle. To this end, we extend to our system a new method, found by S. Pennisi and T. Ruggeri for a less general case.

Received: August 17, 2007

AMS Subject Classification: 26A33

Key Words and Phrases: extended thermodynamics

Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN: 1311-8080
Year: 2008
Volume: 42
Issue: 3