'''Extended irreversible thermodynamics''' is a branch of non-equilibrium thermodynamics that goes outside the restriction to the local equilibrium hypothesis. The space of state variables is enlarged by including the [[flux]]es of mass, momentum and energy and eventually higher order fluxes. | '''Extended irreversible thermodynamics''' is a branch of non-equilibrium thermodynamics that goes outside the restriction to the local equilibrium hypothesis. The space of state variables is enlarged by including the [[flux]]es of mass, momentum and energy and eventually higher order fluxes. |