Entropy production in nonequilibrium thermodynamics: a review
| dc.creator | Gallavotti, Giovanni | |
| dc.date | 2003-12-27 | |
| dc.date | 2004-04-29 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:50:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:50:45Z | |
| dc.description | Entropy might be a not well defined concept if the system can undergo transformations involving stationary nonequilibria. It might be analogous to the heat content (once called ``caloric'') in transformations that are not isochoric (i.e. which involve mechanical work): it could be just a quantity that can be transferred or created, like heat in equilibrium. The text first reviews the philosophy behind a recently proposed definition of entropy production in nonequilibrium stationary systems. A detailed technical attempt at defining the entropy of a stationary states via their variational properties follows: the unsatisfactory aspects of the results add arguments in favor of the nonexistence of a function of state to be identified with entropy; at the same time new aspects and properties of the phase space contraction emerge. | |
| dc.description | This replacement (april 2004) strictly contains the first version and substantially extends it. Title change: creation -> production | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312657 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312657 | |
| dc.identifier | Chaos, 14, 680--690, 2004, | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1063/1.1781911 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/125269 | |
| dc.subject | Statistical Mechanics | |
| dc.title | Entropy production in nonequilibrium thermodynamics: a review | |
| dc.type | text |