Describing states and dynamics in far from equilibrium systems needed a metric within a system state space

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 96, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 75-89

  Ulgiati, S ^a   Bianciardi, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Non equilibrium thermodynamics; Sell organization; Thermodynamic metric

Indexed keywords

NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS; SELF-ORGANIZATION; SYSTEMS COMPLEXITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030619532     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(96)00060-9     Document Type: Article

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