00948nas a2200121   4500008004100000245006000041210006000101260002200161520056500183100002400748700001800772856003600790       2012                        en  d00aThermodynamic phase transitions and shock singularities0 aThermodynamic phase transitions and shock singularities  bThe Royal Society3 aWe show that under rather general assumptions on the form of the entropy\\r\\nfunction, the energy balance equation for a system in thermodynamic equilibrium is equivalent to a set of nonlinear equations of hydrodynamic type. This set of equations is integrable via the method of the characteristics and it provides the equation of state for the gas. The shock wave catastrophe set identifies the phase transition. A family of explicitly solvable models of\\r\\nnon-hydrodynamic type such as the classical plasma and the ideal Bose gas are\\r\\nalso discussed.1 aDe Nittis, Giuseppe1 aMoro, Antonio  uhttp://hdl.handle.net/1963/6090