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The Minimum Rate of Dissipation Principle by Giorgio Sonnino; Jarah Evslin is a Physics and Astronomy article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Minimum Rate of Dissipation Principle about?
We demonstrate that if the relaxation of a non-equilibrium system towards a steady-state satisfies the shortest path principle, then a covariant form of the Glansdorff-Prigogine Universal Criterion of Evolution is also satisfied. We further prove that the Glansdorff-Prigogine quantity is locally minimized when the evolution traces out a geodesic in the space of thermodynamic configurations. Physically the minimization of this term is the Minimum Rate of Dissipation Principle, which states that a thermodynamic system evolves towards a steady-state with the least possible dissipation and therefore relaxes along a geodesic.
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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Physics and Astronomy.
- Author
- Giorgio Sonnino; Jarah Evslin
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0375-9601)
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)