The dissipation field
tensor is an antisymmetric tensor describing the energy dissipation
due to viscosity and consisting of six components. Tensor components are at the
same time components of the two three-dimensional vectors – dissipation field
strength and the solenoidal dissipation vector. With the dissipation field tensor the dissipation stress-energy tensor, the dissipation
field equations and dissipation force in matter are defined. Dissipation field is a component of general field.
Expression for the dissipation field tensor can be found
in papers by Sergey Fedosin, [1] where the
tensor is defined using 4-curl:
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Here dissipation 4-potential
is
given by:
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where
is
the scalar potential,
is
the vector potential of dissipation field,
– speed of light.
The dissipation field strength and the solenoidal
dissipation vector are found with the help of (1):
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and the same in vector notation:
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The dissipation field tensor consists of the components
of these vectors:

The transition to the dissipation field tensor with
contravariant indices is carried out by multiplying by double metric tensor:
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In the special relativity, this tensor has the form:

To convert the components of the dissipation field tensor
from one inertial system to another we must take into account the
transformation rule for tensors. If the reference frame K' moves with an
arbitrary constant velocity
with respect to the fixed reference system K,
and the axes of the coordinate systems are parallel to each other, the
dissipation field strength and the solenoidal dissipation vector are converted
as follows:
![\mathbf {X}^\prime = \frac {\mathbf {V}}{V^2} (\mathbf {V}\cdot \mathbf {X}) + \frac {1}{\sqrt{1 - {V^2 \over c^2}}} \left(\mathbf {X}-\frac {\mathbf {V}}{V^2} (\mathbf {V}\cdot \mathbf {X}) + [\mathbf {V} \times \mathbf {Y }] \right),](dfen_files/1773ec7835de3e55298517d9e709fe30.png)
![\mathbf {Y }^\prime = \frac {\mathbf {V}}{V^2} (\mathbf {V}\cdot \mathbf {Y }) + \frac {1}{\sqrt{1 - {V^2 \over c^2}}} \left(\mathbf {Y }-\frac {\mathbf {V}}{V^2} (\mathbf {V}\cdot \mathbf {Y }) - \frac {1}{ c^2} [\mathbf {V} \times \mathbf {X}] \right).](dfen_files/2abaf303b8db9d401348e79768f5ca99.png)
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Through the dissipation field tensor
the equations of dissipation field are
written:
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where
is the mass 4-current,
is
the mass density in comoving reference frame,
is
the 4-velocity,
is a constant.
Instead of (2) it is possible to use the expression:
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Equation (2) is satisfied identically, which is proved by
substituting into it the definition for the dissipation field tensor according
to (1). If in (2) we insert tensor components
,
this leads to two vector equations:
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According to (5), the solenoidal dissipation vector has
no sources as its divergence vanishes. From (4) it follows that the time
variation of the solenoidal dissipation vector leads to a curl of the
dissipation field strength.
Equation (3) relates the dissipation field to its source
in the form of mass 4-current. In Minkowski space of special relativity
the form of the equation is simplified and becomes:
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где
– плотность движущейся массы,
– плотность тока массы.
According to the first of these equations, the
dissipation field strength is generated by the mass density, and according to
the second equation the mass current or change in time of the dissipation field
strength generate the circular field of the solenoidal dissipation vector.
From (3) and (1) it can be
obtained: [2]
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The continuity
equation for
the mass 4-current
is a gauge condition that is used to derive
the field equation (3) from the principle of least action. Therefore, the
contraction of the Ricci tensor and the dissipation field tensor must be zero:
. This is indeed the case, since the Ricci tensor is a symmetric tensor,
and the tensor
is an antisymmetric tensor.
In Minkowski space the Ricci tensor
equal to zero, the covariant derivative
becomes the partial derivative, and the continuity equation becomes as follows:
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Total Lagrangian for the matter in gravitational and
electromagnetic fields includes the dissipation field tensor and is contained
in the action function: [1]
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where
is
Lagrangian,
is
differential of coordinate time,
is
a certain coefficient,
is
the scalar curvature,
is
the cosmological constant, which is a function of the system,
is
the speed of light as a measure of the propagation speed of electromagnetic and
gravitational interactions,
is
the gravitational four-potential,
is the gravitational constant,
is
the gravitational tensor,
is
the electromagnetic 4-potential,
is
the electromagnetic (charge) 4-current,
is the electric constant,
is
the electromagnetic tensor,
is
the 4-potential of acceleration field,
,
and
are the constants of acceleration
field, pressure field and dissipation field, respectively,
is
the acceleration tensor,
is
the 4-potential of pressure field,
is
the pressure field tensor,
is
the 4-potential of dissipation field,
is
the dissipation field tensor,
is the
invariant 4-volume,
is
the square root of the determinant
of
metric tensor, taken with a negative sign,
is
the product of differentials of the spatial coordinates.
Variation of the action function by 4-coordinates leads
to the equation of motion of matter unit in gravitational and electromagnetic
fields, pressure field and dissipation
field: [1] [3] [4]
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where the first term on the right is the gravitational
force density, expressed with the help of the gravitational field tensor;
second term is the Lorentz electromagnetic force density with invariant charge
density
; the two last term set the pressure force
density and the dissipation force density, respectively;
and
are the four-velocity and four-acceleration
of matter unit.
If we vary the action function by the dissipation
4-potential, we obtain the equation of dissipation field (3).
With the help of dissipation field tensor in the covariant theory of gravitation the dissipation stress-energy tensor is
constructed:
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The covariant derivative of the dissipation stress-energy
tensor determines the dissipation four-force
density:
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Covariant 4-vector of generalized velocity is given by:
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With regard to the generalized 4-velocity, the
Hamiltonian contains the dissipation field tensor and has the form:
where
and
are timelike components of 4-vectors
and
.
In the reference frame that is fixed relative to the
center of momentum of a system, the Hamiltonian determines the invariant energy of the system.