Contact Geometry of Mesoscopic Thermodynamics and Dynamics

Entropy

关键词: nonequilibrium thermodynamics;    nonequilibrium statistical mechanics;    contact geometry;    GENERIC;   

DOI  :  10.3390/e16031652

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The time evolution during which macroscopic systems reach thermodynamic equilibrium states proceeds as a continuous sequence of contact structure preserving transformations maximizing the entropy. This viewpoint of mesoscopic thermodynamics and dynamics provides a unified setting for the classical equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics, kinetic theory, and statistical mechanics. One of the illustrations presented in the paper is a new version of extended nonequilibrium thermodynamics with fluxes as extra state variables.

PACS Codes: 05.20Dd; 05.20J; 05.70Ln

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