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Non-equilibrium thermodynamics

2011
Complex structures such as the cellular building blocks of living things are not at equilibrium in the traditional thermodynamic meaning of the term. They are stable only in the sense that they can continually feed off energy sources supplied by electromagnetic field, chemical, thermal and pressure gradients. Thermodynamically, life has to be viewed as
Yasuaki Ichikawa, A. P. S. Selvadurai
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Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics

1994
After having devoted five chapters of this book to the discussion of equilibrium thermodynamics and conservative dynamic phenomena, it is now high time that we entered into the realm of irreversible transport processes. As mentioned in chapter 1, most of the physical systems which engineers wish to model exhibit dissipative phenomena.
Antony N. Beris, Brian J. Edwards
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Non-equilibrium thermodynamics

2009
Abstract This chapter discusses non-equilibrium thermodynamics and shows how fluctuations lead to the Onsager reciprocal relations, which connect certain kinetic coefficients. It applies these ideas to thermoelectric phenomena and briefly discusses time-reversal symmetry.
Stephen J. Blundell   +1 more
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Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics

2013
In the preceding chapters with few exceptions we studied systems at equilibrium. This means that the systems do not change or evolve over time.
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Entropy flux in non-equilibrium thermodynamics

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004
Abstract An important problem in thermodynamics is the link between the entropy flux and the heat flux, for phenomena far from equilibrium. As an illustration we consider here the case of a rigid heat conductor subject to heating. The expression of the entropy flux is determined by the expressions of the evolution equations of the basic variables. It
D. JOU   +3 more
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