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On the non equilibrium thermodynamics and dynamics of a deformable interface between two electro-magnetically controllable fluids

This thesis is devoted to the study of a deformable material interface between two immiscible moving<p>media, both of them being magnetizable. The first part concerns the establishment of a complete set of dynamical equations allowing a complete description of the non equilibrium phenomena including a coupling between the internal angular momentum and the electromagnetic field. The effects of the relaxation processes are also discussed. We show that the deformation of the interface introduces a nonlinear term, proportional to the mean curvature, in<p>the surface dynamical equations of mass momentum and angular momentum. That term<p>intervenes also in the singular magnetic and electric fields inside the interface which lead to<p>the influence of currents and charge densities at the interface. In a second part, we give the expression<p>for the entropy production inside the interface as well as in the bulk phase. Using the general principles of non equilibrium thermodynamics, we compute the different thermodynamical fluxes. / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ulb.ac.be/oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210041
Date10 November 2010
CreatorsVanhaelen, Quentin
ContributorsCarati, Daniele, Weyssow, Boris, Brenig, Léon, Lapenta, Giovanni G., Hennenberg, Marcel, Siess, Lionel
PublisherUniversite Libre de Bruxelles, Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences – Physique, Bruxelles
Source SetsUniversité libre de Bruxelles
LanguageFrench
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/vlink-dissertation
Format1 v. (iii, 140 p.), No full-text files

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