Entropy and Entropy Production: Old Misconceptions and New Breakthroughs

Entropy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1152-1170

  Martyushev, Leonid M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Applicability Jaynes s maximization; Biological evolution; Prigogine s principle; Ziegler s principle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883555856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e15041152     Document Type: Review

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