scholarly journals The maximum entropy production principle: two basic questions

2010 ◽  
Vol 365 (1545) ◽  
pp. 1333-1334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid M. Martyushev
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Entropy Production ◽  
Maximum Entropy ◽  
Statistical Physics ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
Equilibrium Thermodynamics ◽  
Maximum Entropy Production ◽  
Environmental Systems ◽  
Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Non Equilibrium

The overwhelming majority of maximum entropy production applications to ecological and environmental systems are based on thermodynamics and statistical physics. Here, we discuss briefly maximum entropy production principle and raises two questions: (i) can this principle be used as the basis for non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics and (ii) is it possible to ‘prove’ the principle? We adduce one more proof which is most concise today.

Equilibrium and Kinetic Properties of Minerals

1998 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 581-583
Author(s):  
Simon A. T. Redfern
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Atomic Scale ◽  
Kinetic Properties ◽  
Computational Power ◽  
Equilibrium Thermodynamics ◽  
Bulk Properties ◽  
Scale Characteristics ◽  
Number Of Publications

How can the equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics of minerals be understood from their atomic-scale structural features? How can they be predicted, simply from models for the forces between atoms? Advances in analytical theory, statistical mechanics, experimental solid-state science, computational power, and the sophistication of a mineralogical approach that brings all of these together, means that these questions, once imponderable, are now realistically tractable. These questions have been exercising the minds of mineralogists over the last decade or so, and have motivated many developments in the science. Acting as way-markers along the path, there are a number of publications which have followed from meetings where these questions have been addressed. It is now twelve years since the publication of Microscopic to Macroscopic, an edition of Reviews in Mineralogy (Kieffer and Navrotsky, 1985) that sought to identify the fundamental controls on the bulk properties of minerals in terms of their atomic-scale characteristics.

Problems and Solutions on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

10.1142/12684 ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swee Cheng Lim ◽  
Choy Heng Lai ◽  
Leong Chuan Kwek
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics

scholarly journals Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Small Systems

Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Puglisi ◽  
Alessandro Sarracino ◽  
Angelo Vulpiani
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Small Systems ◽  
Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics
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