The behaviour of the entropy during transitions far from thermodynamic equilibrium

H. Engel-Herbert and W. Ebeling

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1988, vol. 149, issue 1, 182-194

Abstract: The Brownian motion of nonlinear oscillators imbedded in a heat bath is studied. For the excitation of sustained oscillations, realized by van der Pol oscillators, the entropy is calculated in the limit of weak dissipation and weak noise. At fixed average energy the entropy decreases monotonically if the feedback strength increases.

Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(88)90213-0

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