The paper has the following structure. In Sect. 6.2, we give a geometrical description
of the thermodynamic state. We consider the thermodynamic state as twodimensional
Lagrangian manifold, which can be defined by two equations with
compatibility condition.
In Sect. 6.3, we study state equations and corresponding Lagrangian manifolds
for van der Waals gases and get its applicable domains with a description of phase
transitions.
In Sect. 6.4,we look for solutions as asymptotic expansions and analyse the zeroth
and the first-order approximations.
In Sect. 6.5, we show space-time domains corresponding to different phases of
the medium.