Galilean thermodynamics of a multicomponent fluid and its induced electromagnetic fields

The phenomenological theory of irreversible processes in fluid systems has been successfully applied to new research fields, for example spintronics and spincaloritronics (arXiv:1011.2323). We include the electromagnetic interaction into the thermodynamic description of a multicomponent fluid. Our analysis is performed in the Galilean limit of electromagnetism. The tensorial part of the Onsager relations accounts in particular for mutliferroic effects.