thermoelectricity transport equations

What is it about?

Researchers in thermoelectricity with backgrounds in non-equilibrium thermodynamics, thermoelectric engineering or condensed-matter physics tend to use different choices of flux densities and generalized forces. These choices are seldom justified from either the dissipation function or the entropy production rate. A critical review of the transport equations is presented here.

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Why is it important?

The requirements on valid transport equations imposed by the invariance of the entropy production must be understood.