Abstract

These lectures are intended as a pedagogical introduction to the covariant formulation of nonequilibrium and statistical thermodynamics and kinetic theory. The various formulations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and their individual difficulties — with causality, stability, shock structure — are critically reviewed. As an illustration of the general formalism, a fairly detailed treatment is presented of the covariant statistical thermodynamics of superfluids.KeywordsHeat FluxMach NumberNeutron StarThermal EquilibriumKinetic TheoryThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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