This note emphasizes the particular role played by the quantity “entropy multiplied by temperature” in the formulation of canonical thermomechanics either in the bulk or at singular surfaces, especially at shock waves and phase transition fronts, but more generally when working hypotheses of adiabatic or isothermal behaviour must be selected.
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