This book is devoted to the development of the local gradient theory of dielectrics.
It presents a brief description of the known approaches to the construction of generalized (integral- and gradient-type) continuous theories of dielectrics.
It describes a new continuum-thermodynamic approach to the construction of nonlinear high-order gradient theory of thermoelastic non-ferromagnetic polarized media.
This approach is based on accounting for non-diffusive and non-convective mass fluxes as.