Contains very new results that are not yet presented in other similar books

Offers an overview of applications in many different research fields

Elucidates intimate relationship between nonequilibrium thermodynamcis and the symmetric hyperbolic systems with relaxation

1. Introduction and Overview.- 2. 2 Mathematical Structure.- 3. Waves in Hyperbolic Systems.- 4. RET of Rare¿ed Monatomic Gas: Non-Relativistic Theory.- 5. Relativistic RET of Rare¿ed Monatomic Gas.- 6. Macroscopic Theory of Rare¿ed Polyatomic Gas with 14 Fields.- 7. Molecular ET of Rare¿ed Polyatomic Gas with 14 Fields.- 8. Relaxation Processes of Molecular Rotation and Vibration: ET15.- 9. Nesting Theory of Many Moments and Maximum Entropy Principle.- 10. Monatomic-Gas Limit in Molecular ET of Polyatomic Gas.- 11. Many Moments with Molecular Rotation and Vibration.- 12. Phenomenological Non linear RET with 6 Fields.- 13. Non linear Molecular ET Theory with 6 Fields.- 14. Non linear ET7 Theory with Molecular Rotational and Vibrational Modes.- 15. Non equilibrium Temperature and Chemical Potential.- 16. Linear Sound Wave in a Rare¿ed Polyatomic Gas.- 17. Shock Wave in a Polyatomic Gas Analyzed by ET14.- 18 Shock Wave and Subshock Formation Analyzed by ET6.- 19 Steady Flow of aPolyatomic Gas.- 20 Acceleration Wave, K-condition, and Global Existence in ET.- 21 Light Scattering.- 22 Heat Conduction.- 23 Fluctuating Hydrodynamics.- 24 RET of Dense Polyatomic Gas with 6 Fields.- 25 RET of Dense Polyatomic Gas with 7 Fields.- 26 Relativistic Polyatomic Gas.- 27 Many-Moment RET of Relativistic Polyatomic Gas and Classical Optimal Limit.- 28 Multi-Temperature Mixture of Fluids.- 29 Shock Structure in a Macroscopic Model of Binary Mixtures.- 30 Flocking and Thermodynamical Cucker-Smale Model.- 31 Mixture of Dissipative Polyatomic Gases.- 32 Relativistic Mixture of Gases and Relativistic Cucker-Smale Model.- 33 Hyperbolic Parabolic Limit, Maxwellian Iteration.