Dissipation field is a two-component vector force field,
which describes in a covariant way friction force and energy dissipation
emerging in systems with a number of closely interacting particles. The
dissipation field is a general field
component, which is represented in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian of an arbitrary
physical system including term with energy of particles in dissipation field
and term with field energy. [1] [2] The dissipation field is included in equation of motion by means of dissipation field tensor and in equation
for metric – by means of dissipation
stress-energy tensor.
By energy dissipation is meant conversion of energy of
directed motion of particles into energy of random motion of these particles
and particles of surrounding medium, as well as conversion into energy of
intramolecular and atomic motion, while energy of motion of fast-moving fluxes
of particles decreases due to friction with slower fluxes. Typical examples of
dissipation of mechanical energy are damping of motion of a jet in a liquid and
heating of falling meteorites during their motion in the Earth's atmosphere.
Dissipation field is generally considered as a macroscopic field with its
energy and momentum, describing averaged interaction of particles in an
arbitrary small volume of a system. The cause of dissipation field emerging at micro
level is different interactions leading to effects of friction and deceleration
of individual particles or their fluxes. At atomic level, electromagnetic
forces and strong gravitation are
prevailing, by which particles interact with each other and exchange their
energy. Friction forces in a system of particles appear as a collective effect
and are proportional not only to velocity, but also to its derivatives with
respect to time and coordinates. Since the friction force is described by dissipation
field tensor and corresponding stress-energy tensor, dissipation field in each
small volume obtains its energy density and energy flux density. In dissipative
processes, some change occurs in internal energy of system, mainly due to change
in quantity of heat or in energy of phase transitions, which can be considered
as a change in dissipation field energy. Internal energy also changes when pressure field energy and energy of particles’
acceleration field change, as well as
due to change in energy of electromagnetic, gravitational and other fields. In
turn, dissipation field energy flux makes its contribution into flux of
internal energy and flux of relativistic energy of the system.
Main processes that lead to energy dissipation are viscous
friction of layers of liquid or gas against each other, friction during motion
of solid bodies due to interaction with surrounding medium, thermal
conductivity and diffusion in gases and liquids. All of these processes belong
to transport phenomena: friction occurs during transfer of momentum, heat
conductivity occurs during internal energy transfer, and diffusion is
associated with transfer of mass (charge, electric and magnetic moment, etc.).
Friction is the main source of energy dissipation. Thermal conductivity and
diffusion also make some contribution, since in real processes all kinds of
transfer are intertwined with each other.
In order to describe friction forces in Euler–Lagrange
equation the friction forces are introduced: [3]
where is Lagrangian,
are generalized coordinates. In addition, dissipation function
is introduced into consideration, so that the following relation holds:
Rayleigh dissipation function is given by expression:
If tensor does not depend on velocities, corresponding friction force is equal to:
Dissipation function has dimension of power and the
tensor must have dimension kg/s. If the tensor is symmetrical, friction force
appears to be directed oppositely to velocity of particle’s motion relative to surrounding
medium.
This shows that dissipation function represents some form
of a scalar potential, which depends on products of projections of relative
velocities, and dissipation field is considered as corresponding scalar field.
But unlike standard scalar potentials of fundamental fields, friction force is
not in the form of a gradient of dissipative functions but in the form of a
derivative with respect to motion velocity. This approach cannot be considered
as a fully covariant description of friction processes, it can only serve as a
first approximation, because it does not take into consideration friction in
accelerated motion.
Newton's law of fluid friction describes internal
friction force in liquid layer, moving relative to other parallel layers, in the form:
here is coefficient of internal friction or coefficient of dynamic viscosity,
is
gradient of velocity of layers’ motion in direction perpendicular to the layer
surface,
is surface area of the layer.
A more accurate description of motion in a viscous medium
is given by the Navier–Stokes equations:
where is mass density of matter,
is "second viscosity", or volume viscosity,
is Kronecker delta,
is Cauchy stress tensor,
is acceleration due to the mass forces (including the gravitational and
electromagnetic forces and force of inertia), while second equation is continuity
equation.
Instead of tensor in relativistic case four-dimensional viscous stress tensor is used to
describe equation of motion of viscous and heat-conducting media: [4]
where is four-velocity with a contravariant index,
is four-velocity with a covariant index,
is coefficient of second (volume) viscosity,
is metric tensor,
is speed of light.
Density of four-force,
arising from viscosity, is calculated using covariant derivative of tensor and is present in right side of Navier-Stokes equations. By its meaning the
tensor
is stress-energy tensor, but it cannot be derived from principle of least
action.
Dissipation field as a two-component vector field was
presented by Sergey Fedosin within the framework of metric theory of relativity and covariant theory of gravitation. Equations
of this field were developed as a consequence of principle of least action, [5] and a special procedure was used. [6]
Four-potential of dissipation field is expressed in terms
of scalar and vector
potentials:
Antisymmetric dissipation
field tensor is calculated with four-curl of four-potential:
Dissipation field tensor components are vector components
of dissipation field strength and solenoidal vector
:
This yields the following:
In covariant theory of gravitation, four-potential of dissipation field is part of four-potential of general field
, which is sum of the four-potentials of
particular fields, such as electromagnetic and gravitational fields,
acceleration field, pressure field, dissipation field, strong interaction
field, weak interaction field and other vector fields, acting on matter and its
particles. Energy density of interaction of general field with matter is given
by product of four-potential of general field and mass four-current:
. From four-potential of general field we
obtain general field tensor by applying four-curl:
Tensor invariant in the form of is up to a constant factor proportional to energy
density of general field. As a result, action function that contains scalar
curvature
and cosmological constant
is given by expression: [1]
where is Lagrange function or Lagrangian,
is time differential,
and
are constants to be determined,
is speed of light, as a measure of the propagation velocity of
electromagnetic and gravitational interactions,
is invariant four-volume, expressed in terms of differential of time
coordinate
, product
of differentials of space coordinates and square root
of determinant
of metric tensor, taken with negative sign.
Variation of action function gives general field
equations, four-dimensional equation of motion and equation for determining metric.
Since dissipation field is a component of general field, then corresponding
dissipation field equations can be derived from the general field equations.
Given gauge conditions of cosmological constant are met
in the following form:
the system’s energy does not depend on the term with the
scalar curvature and it becomes uniquely determined: [7]
where and
denote time components of four-vectors
and
.
Main article: Equation
of vector field
Four-dimensional equations of dissipation field are
similar by their form to Maxwell equations and have the following form:
where is mass four-current,
is mass density in comoving reference frame,
is four-velocity of matter unit,
is a constant determined in each problem, and it is assumed that there is a
balance between all fields in the physical system.
Gauge condition for four-potential of dissipation field
is:
In Minkowski space of special theory of relativity, the
form of dissipation field equations is simplified and they can be expressed in
terms of field strength and solenoidal vector
:
where is Lorentz factor,
is the mass current density ,
is matter unit velocity.
If we also use gauge condition in the form of and relation (1), we can obtain wave equations for dissipation field
potentials from field equations:
In curved space equation of motion of matter unit in general
field is given by the formula:
.
Since , and general field tensor is expressed in terms of tensors of particular
fields, then equation of motion can be represented using these tensors : [8]
Here is acceleration tensor,
is electromagnetic tensor,
is charge four-current,
is gravitational tensor,
is pressure
field tensor,
is strong interaction field tensor,
is weak interaction field tensor.
Dissipation
stress-energy tensor is calculated with the help of dissipation field
tensor:
Tensor includes three-vector of energy-momentum flux
, which is similar in its meaning to Poynting
vector and Heaviside vector. Vector
can be represented through vector product of field strength
and solenoidal vector
:
here index is
Covariant derivative of stress-energy tensor of dissipation
field determines density of dissipation four-force:
Stress-energy tensor of dissipation field is part of stress-energy
tensor of general field , but in general case the tensor
also contains cross-terms with products of strengths and solenoidal vectors
of particular fields:
where are some coefficients,
is
electromagnetic stress-energy tensor,
is
gravitational stress-energy tensor,
is
acceleration stress-energy tensor,
is
pressure stress-energy tensor,
is
strong interaction stress-energy tensor,
is
weak interaction stress-energy tensor.
By means of tensor , the stress-energy tensor of dissipation
field becomes part of equation for metric:
where is
Ricci tensor,
is
gravitational constant,
is
a certain constant, and gauge condition for cosmological constant is used.
In case when a certain vector potential of a particle is
equal to zero in rest frame of the particle, four-potential of this vector
field in an arbitrary frame of reference can be represented as follows: [6]
where for
electromagnetic field and
for other fields,
and
are mass density and accordingly charge density in comoving reference
frame,
is energy density of particle in given field,
is
covariant four-velocity.
For dissipation field
and
, and according to definition, for four-potential
of dissipation field of one particle we have the following:
where is
dissipation function. For an arbitrary particle, components of e four-potential
in framework of special relativity (STR) take the form:
and hence, vector potential is directed along the
particle’s velocity. If the vector potential components are functions of time
and do not directly depend on space coordinates, then for such motion according
to (1) solenoidal vector vanishes.
Due to interaction of a set of particles with each other
by means of various fields, including interaction at a distance without direct
contact, dissipation field in matter changes and is different from dissipation
field of a single particle at observation point. Dissipation field in a system
of particles is specified by field strength and solenoid vector, which
represent typical averaged characteristics of matter’s motion. As a rule, in a
gravitationally-bound system radial gradients of different field strengths
appear, including dissipation field strength and if some part of particles is moving
synchronously or rotating, then vector
appears. From (2) and (3) we derive a general expression for four-force
density with a covariant index, which arises from the dissipation field:
where denotes four-dimensional space-time interval.
Relativistic equation of motion of viscous compressible
matter, taking into account four-potential of dissipation field, dissipation
field tensor and stress-energy tensor of dissipation field, within the limits
of low curvature of spacetime can be represented as follows: [5]
where is acceleration of gravitational and electromagnetic mass forces,
is
gravitational field strength,
is
gravitational torsion field,
is
t electric field strength,
is
magnetic field.
At low velocities, for Lorentz factor we can assume . Under ordinary conditions, we can also
neglect contribution of pressure
and dissipation function
on
the left side of equation. Determining dynamic viscosity by expression
,
where
is
acceleration field coefficient, and
denoting
, we obtain the following:
Main difference of this equation from Navier–Stokes
equation is a small additional term, which contains second time derivative of flux
velocity and square of speed of light in denominator.