Transport processes in biological systems: Tumoral cells and human brain

Umberto Lucia

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 393, issue C, 327-336

Abstract: The entropy generation approach has been developed for the analysis of complex systems, with particular regards to biological systems, in order to evaluate their stationary states. The entropy generation is related to the transport processes related to exergy flows. Moreover, cancer can be described as an open complex dynamic and self-organizing system. Consequently, it is used as an example useful to evaluate the different thermo-chemical quantities of the transport processes in normal and in tumoral cells systems.

Keywords: Brain; Entropy generation; Exergy flows; Irreversibility; Stationary states (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.08.066

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