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    Entropy production (or generation) is the amount of entropy which is produced during heat process to evaluate the efficiency of the process. Entropy is...
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    Entropy is a scientific concept, most commonly associated with states of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the concept are used in diverse...
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    the evolution of the system in time. Together with the concept of entropy production, this provides a powerful tool in process optimisation, and provides...
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  • In classical thermodynamics, entropy (from Greek τρoπή (tropḗ) 'transformation') is a property of a thermodynamic system that expresses the direction...
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    terms of entropy change. A heat pump can reverse this heat flow, but the reversal process and the original process, both cause entropy production, thereby...
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  • to the probability distribution of the time-averaged irreversible entropy production, denoted Σ ¯ t {\displaystyle {\overline {\Sigma }}_{t}} . The theorem...
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    temperature times mass density). The rate of entropy production for the above simple example uses only two entropic forces, and a 2×2 Onsager phenomenological...
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  • formulation of Prigogine's theorem is: In a stationary state, the production of entropy inside a thermodynamic system with constant external parameters...
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  • Rényi entropy is a quantity that generalizes various notions of entropy, including Hartley entropy, Shannon entropy, collision entropy, and min-entropy. The...
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  • Energy dissipation and entropy production extremal principles are ideas developed within non-equilibrium thermodynamics that attempt to predict the likely...
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    to a state of no thermodynamic free energy and, having reached maximum entropy, will therefore be unable to sustain any further thermodynamic processes...
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  • concept of entropy is central, Shannon was persuaded to employ the same term 'entropy' for his measure of uncertainty. Information entropy is often presumed...
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  • is a nonlinear partial differential equation describing specific entropy production in a Newtonian fluid subject to thermal conduction and viscous forces:...
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  • In physics, the Tsallis entropy is a generalization of the standard Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy. It is proportional to the expectation of the q-logarithm...
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    thermodynamic quantities, including the resulting increase in entropy of the universe (entropy production) that results from this inherently irreversible process...
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    principle of maximum entropy production. It states that nonequilibrium systems behave in such a way as to maximize their entropy production. Energy portal Physics...
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  • In physics, maximum entropy thermodynamics (colloquially, MaxEnt thermodynamics) views equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics as inference...
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  • are the Onsager reciprocal relations and the principle of minimum entropy production. After efforts to extend such results to systems far from equilibrium...
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  • theorem). Where entropy production may be calculated as the net increase in entropy of the system together with its surroundings. Entropy production is due to...
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  • trajectories under nonequilibrium conditions. It complements the notion of entropy production, which measures time-antisymmetric aspects associated with irreversibility...
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  • an entropic force acting in a system is an emergent phenomenon resulting from the entire system's statistical tendency to increase its entropy, rather...
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  • Research concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and both the origin and evolution of life began around the turn of the...
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  • Dissipation (category Thermodynamic entropy)
    associated increase in entropy. Processes with defined local temperature produce entropy at a certain rate. The entropy production rate times local temperature...
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    multiplying the thermal potential by the amount of entropy found at that potential: temperature times entropy. Entropy can be created by friction but not annihilated...
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  • entropy production is non-negative. When the cold bath approaches the absolute zero temperature, it is necessary to eliminate the entropy production divergence...
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    define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize thermodynamic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium....
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  • probability distribution of entropy production in the forward time trajectory is exponentially greater than entropy production in the reverse trajectory...
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    entropy production is non-negative. When the cold bath approaches the absolute zero temperature, it is necessary to eliminate the entropy production divergence...
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  • detailed balance implies positivity of entropy production. The Boltzmann formula (1872) for entropy production in rarefied gas kinetics with detailed...
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  • is the maximum entropy production principle. It states that a non-equilibrium system evolves such as to maximize its entropy production. Chemistry portal...
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