A non conventional thermodynamical model for magnetizable media

The paper deals with a thermodynamical description of reciprocal interactions of mechani-cal, thermal and electromagnetic fields in a magnetizable body. The balance equations for mass, momentum, energy and electromagnetic fields and the rate equations for electric current and heat fluxes are formulated for a conducting thermoelastic magnetizable body in the framework of extended irreversible thermodynamics. Liu's theorem is applied to analyze the entropy inequality and constitutive laws are deduced with the help of isotropic representations of proper constitutive functions, that satisfy the objectivity principle.