This paper gives a historical account of the early years (1953– 1983) of extended irreversible thermodynamics (EIT). The salient features of this formalism are to upgrade the thermodynamic fluxes of mass, momentum, energy, and others, to the status of independent variables, and to explore the consistency between generalized transport equations and a generalized version of the second law of ther...

The development of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes is outlined with a review of recent work and a discussion of the application of these concepts to physicochemical, biological and hydrodynamic phenomena. The extension of local thermodynamics to include a theory of stability and of fluctuations receives attention. The author concludes with remarks on the stability properties of che...

We propose a derivation of statistical laws from time series data analysis on the analogy of the thermodynamics. Recently, Sekimoto and Sasa reconstructed thermodynamics of systems, which are governed by the Langevin equations. We construct \thermodynamics" by applying their approach to the Auto Regressive type models, in which the random uctuation is no more thermal one. Since the detailed bal...

The reheating process in in ationary universe models is considered as an out-of-equilibrium mixture of two interacting and reacting uids, and studied within the framework of causal, irreversible thermodynamics. The evolution of the temperature and the decay rate as determined by causal thermodynamics are estimated at di erent stages of the process. A simple model is also used to nd the perturba...