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The thermodynamic densities and fluxes of a radiation field are best calculated by considering the field as a photon gas and using the methods of the kinetic theory of gases, cf. Chap. 3. Even without specifying the collision term — due to the interaction of matter and radiation — one may obtain important results about thermal and viscous dissipation in matter, if the radiative fluxes are known, and when stationary conditions prevail. This is so because in the stationary state the dissipative entropy source is balanced by the in- and outgoing fluxes of entropy.
This chapter prepares the reader for the subsequent one in which the dissipation of the earth’s atmosphere is considered.
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(2005). Radiation thermodynamics. In: Entropy and Energy. Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32380-5_18
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