Irreversible processes at nonequilibrium steady states and Lyapounov functions.

نویسندگان

  • G Nicolis
  • I Prigogine
چکیده

Nonequilibrium stability theory is reviewed. In answer to recent comments by Fox [Fox, R. F. (1979) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, 2114-2117], it is pointed out that various choices of Lyapounov functions are possible in the nonlinear range of irreversible phenomena.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

دوره 76 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1979