Maximum of the local entropy production becomes minimal in stationary processes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 5048-5051

  Struchtrup, Henning ^a   Weiss, Wolf ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GASES; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; TENSORS;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; MONATOMIC GASES; PHASE DENSITY;

ENTROPY;

EID: 0032496580     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.5048     Document Type: Article

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