Compendium on the Principle of the Minimum of the Dissipation Potential for Non-Isothermal Processes

In this paper we present a compendium of the original paper “The Principle of the Minimum of the Dissipation Potential for Non‐Isothermal Processes”, published in Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics [1]. There, a contribution to the methodology of material modeling was introduced by presenting a potential‐based approach for non‐isothermal processes. It was based on the principle of the minimum of the dissipation potential which was used previously only for isothermal material models. In contrast to the principle of maximum dissipation, the presented procedure resulted in mathematically simplified equations. Due to its potential character, the inclusion of constraints was very simple. (© 2014 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)