Relaxation Processes and the Maximum Entropy Production Principle
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Relaxation Processes and the Maximum Entropy Production Principle
Spontaneous transitions of an isolated system from one macroscopic state to another (relaxation processes) are accompanied by a change of entropy. Following Jaynes’ MaxEnt formalism, it is shown that practically all the possible microscopic developments of a system, within a fixed time interval, are accompanied by the maximum possible entropy change. In other words relaxation processes are acco...
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عنوان ژورنال: Entropy
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1099-4300
DOI: 10.3390/e12030473