Dissipation stress-energy tensor is a symmetric tensor of the second
valence (rank), which describes the density and flux of energy of dissipation field in matter. This
tensor in the covariant theory of
gravitation is included in the equation for determining the metric along
with the gravitational stress-energy tensor,
the acceleration stress-energy tensor,
the pressure stress-energy tensor and
the stress-energy tensor of electromagnetic field. The covariant derivative of the dissipation
stress-energy tensor specifies the density of dissipation force acting in substance
and slowing down the movement of matter flows relative to each other.
The dissipation stress-energy tensor is relativistic
generalization of the three-dimensional viscous stress tensor used in fluid
mechanics.
For relativistic description of the equations of motion
of viscous and heat-conducting medium in the book [1]
is used the four-dimensional viscous stress tensor:

where
is
the coefficient of common (shear) viscosity,
is
the four-velocity with contravariant index,
is the four-velocity with covariant index,
is the coefficient of bulk viscosity (or "second viscosity"),
is
the metric tensor,
is the speed of light.
The form of the tensor is determined from the
requirements imposed by the law of entropy increase. This tensor is defined
such that in a reference frame in which the moving element of matter is at rest,
tensor components
and
vanish. This means that the energy of the element of
matter in the comoving frame must be calculated by other physical variables
that are not related to the viscosity as in the absence of dissipative
processes. As a result, the condition is superimposed at the tensor:
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The tensor
is
a part of energy-momentum tensor of matter with pressure
and it takes into account the viscosity:
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here
,
is
the energy density of matter without pressure.
The equation of motion of matter with pressure and
viscosity is obtained from the vanishing of the covariant derivative of the
energy-momentum tensor of matter:
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A significant drawback of the tensor
is
that it is not derived from the principle of least action, and therefore can not be used, for example, to calculate the metrics in
the system. In addition, in the general case the tensor components
and
can not zeroed in the comoving frame, because the
environment is moving relative to the element of matter and energy dissipation
process is not terminated.
In covariant theory
of gravitation (CTG) dissipation field is considered as four-vector field consisting of scalar and 3-vector
components, and is a
component of general field. Therefore in CTG the dissipation stress-energy tensor is
defined by the dissipation field tensor
and the metric tensor
by the principle of least action: [2]
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where
is
a constant having its own value in each task. The constant
is
not uniquely defined, and it is a consequence of the fact that the dissipation
in liquid medium may have been caused by any reasons and both internal and
external forces.
In the weak field limit, when the space-time metric
becomes the Minkowski metric of special relativity, the metric tensor
becomes the tensor
, consisting of the numbers 0, 1, –1. In this case the form of the
dissipation stress-energy tensor is greatly simplified and can be expressed in
terms of the components of the dissipation field tensor, i.e. the dissipation
field strength
and solenoidal dissipation vector
:

The time-like components of the tensor contain:
1) The volumetric energy density of dissipation field
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2) The vector of energy flux density of
dissipation field
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The components of the vector
are part of the corresponding tensor
components
, and due to the symmetry of the tensor indices
.
The space-like components of the tensor form a submatrix
3 x 3, which is the 3-dimensional stress tensor, taken with a minus sign. The
stress tensor can be written as
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where
the components
the Kronecker delta
equals 1 if
and equals 0 if ![]()
Three-dimensional divergence of the stress tensor of dissipation
field gives:
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where
denote the components of the
three-dimensional dissipation force density,
– the components of the energy flux density of the dissipation field.
The principle of least action implies that the four-vector of dissipation force density
can be found through the dissipation
stress-energy tensor, either through the product of dissipation field tensor
and mass four-current:
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Equation (1) is closely related with the dissipation
field equations:
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In the special theory of relativity, according to (1) for
the components of the dissipation four-force
density can be written:
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where
is the 3-vector of the dissipation force density,
is
the density of the moving matter,
is the 3-vector of the mass current density,
is the 3-vector of velocity of the matter unit.
In Minkowski space, the field equations are transformed
into 4 equations for the dissipation field strength
and solenoidal dissipation vector
:
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In the covariant theory of gravitation
the dissipation stress-energy tensor in accordance with the principles of metric theory of relativity is one of the
tensors defining metrics inside the bodies by the equation for the metric:
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where
is
the coefficient to be determined,
,
,
,
,
are the stress-energy tensors of the acceleration
field, pressure field, gravitational
and electromagnetic fields, dissipation
field, respectively,
is
the gravitational constant.
The equation of motion of a point particle inside or
outside matter can be represented in tensor form, with dissipation
stress-energy tensor
or dissipation field tensor
:
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where
is
the acceleration tensor,
is the gravitational tensor ,
is the electromagnetic tensor,
is the pressure field tensor,
is
the dissipation field tensor,
is the charge four-current,
is the density of electric charge of the matter unit in the comoving
reference frame,
is
the four-velociry.
Time-like component of the equation (2) at
describes the change in the energy and
spatial component at
connects the acceleration with the total
force density.
Time-like component in (2) can be considered as the local
law of conservation of energy and energy flux. In the limit of special relativity, when
the covariant derivative becomes the four-gradient, and the
Christoffel symbols vanish, this conservation law takes the simple form: [3] [4]
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where
is
the vector of the acceleration field energy flux density,
is
the Heaviside vector,
is
the Poynting vector,
is
the vector of the pressure field energy flux density,
is
the vector of the dissipation field energy flux density.
According to this law, the work of the field to
accelerate the masses and charges is compensated by the work of the matter to
create the field. As a result, the change in time of the sum of tensor
components with energy density in a certain volume is possible only due to the
inflow of energy fluxes into this volume.
The integral form of the law of conservation of energy
and energy flux is obtained by
integrating (2) over the four-volume to accommodate the energy and energy flux of gravitational and
electromagnetic fields, extending far beyond the physical system. By the Gauss's formula the integral of the four-divergence of some tensor over the four-space
can be replaced by the integral of time-like tensor components over 3-volume.
As a result, in Lorentz coordinates the integral vector equal to zero may be
obtained:
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Vanishing of
the integral vector allows us to explain the 4/3 problem, according to which
the mass-energy of field in the energy flux of field of the moving system in 4/3 more than in the field energy of
fixed system. On the other hand, according to, [4] the generalized
Poynting theorem and the integral vector should be considered differently
inside the matter and beyond its limits. As a result, the occurrence of the 4/3
problem is associated with the fact that the time components of the
stress-energy tensors do not form four-vectors, and therefore they cannot
define the same mass in the fields’ energy and energy flux in principle.
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