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The adiabatic piston: a perpetuum mobile in the mesoscopic realm
Entropy, 2004 : A detailed analysis of the adiabatic-piston problem reveals, for a finely-tuned choice of the spatial dimensions of the system, peculiar dynamical features that challenge the statement that an isolated system necessarily reaches a time-independent ...
Claudio Conti +2 more
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Implementing Demons and Ratchets
Entropy, 2017 Experimental results show that ratchets may be implemented in semiconductor and chemical systems, bypassing the second law and opening up huge gains in energy production.
Peter M. Orem, Frank M. Orem
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Irreversibility and Second Law [PDF]
Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, 1998 This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
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The Deep Physics Behind the Second Law: Information and Energy As Independent Forms of Bookkeeping
Entropy, 2004 : Even after over 150 years of discussion, the interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics continues to be a source of confusion and controversy in physics.
Jack S. Semura, Todd L. Duncan
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Entropy, 2015 The literature reports the proofs that entropy is an inherent property of any system in any state and governs thermal energy, which depends on temperature and is transferred by heat interactions.
Pierfrancesco Palazzo
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Infinite family of second-law-like inequalities [PDF]
, 2012 The probability distribution function for an out of equilibrium system may sometimes be approximated by a physically motivated "trial" distribution.
Kolton, Alejandro B. +2 more
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Second Thoughts on the Second Law [PDF]
, 2018 We speculate whether the second law of thermodynamics has more to do with Turing machines than steam pipes. It states the logical reversibility of reality as a computation, i.e., the fact that no information is forgotten: nature computes with Toffoli-, not NAND gates.
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The Second Law and Cosmology [PDF]
, 2008 I use cosmology examples to illustrate that the second law of thermodynamics is not old and tired, but alive and kicking, continuing to stimulate interesting research on really big puzzles.
Ahmed Ghoniem +3 more
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A Kinetic Perspective on k - ϵ Turbulence Model and Corresponding Entropy Production
Entropy, 2016 In this paper, we present an alternative derivation of the entropy production in turbulent flows, based on a formal analogy with the kinetic theory of rarefied gas.
Pietro Asinari +2 more
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Entropy, 2018 MHD free convection inside a triangular-wave-shaped corrugated porous cavity with Cu-water nanofluid is numerically studied with the finite element method. The influences of the Grashof number ( 10 4 ≤ Gr ≤ 10 6 ), Hartmann number (
Ali J. Chamkha, Fatih Selimefendigil
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