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A Thermodynamic Variational Principle in Nonlinear Non-Equilibrium Phenomena Export

Progress of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 66 (July 1981), pp. 68-76.

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an early (1981) formulation of a MEP principle for physical systems based on near-equilibrium boundary conditions (but not necessarily near equilibrium system).

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From a far-sighted viewpoint for a nonlinear non-equilibrium system including the reservoirs a principle of maximum increasing rate of the total entropy is proposed to describe non-equilibrium steady as well as non-steady phenomena. The conditions for the validity of this postulate are discussed and the principle was compared with Prigogine's general evolution criterion and minimum excess entropy production principle.


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