Considerations on non equilibrium thermodynamics of interactions

Umberto Lucia

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 447, issue C, 314-319

Abstract: Nature can be considered the “first” engineer! For scientists and engineers, dynamics and evolution of complex systems are not easy to predict. A fundamental approach to study complex system is thermodynamics. But, the result is the origin of too many schools of thermodynamics with a consequent difficulty in communication between thermodynamicists and other scientists and, also, among themselves. The solution is to obtain a unified approach based on the fundamentals of physics. Here we suggest a possible unification of the schools of thermodynamics starting from two fundamental concepts of physics, interaction and flows.

Keywords: Constructal law; Entropy; Irreversibility; Non-equilibrium thermodynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.12.063

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