evolved to reach a stationary state, internal flows manifest themselves as internal processes. Here, the entropy generation … surroundings. This provides the link between the entropy generation extrema approach and the constructal law. …

entropy production rate and the maximum entropy production, useful in the analysis of dissipation and irreversibility of …, dissipation and irreversibility are analyzed using the entropy generation, for which there exist two principle of extrema too, the … their steady state, two apparently opposed principles for their rate of entropy production have been proposed: the minimum …

whole Universe and the dissipative systems in our bubble of Universe. Based on the gap between the general entropy velocity … and the entropy velocity inside the dissipative systems, a taxonomic criterion for identifying the classes of dissipative … rationality to the sustainability rationality, based on the entropy conclusions and predictions (in the matter, three types of …

approach of irreversibility. They allow us to evaluate both the technological level and the environmental impact of the …

concept of entropy. We use Boltzmann's approach of the degree of order to give an illustration of the entropy concept. We then …

approach of irreversibility. They allow us to evaluate both the technological level and the environmental impact of the …

We point out that the fundamental irreversibility of Nature requires the introduction of a suitable measure for the … distance from equilibrium. We show that entropy, which is widely held to be such a measure, suffers from the problem that it … basic physics beyond irreversibility has remained obscure. We present here a simple but transparent physical approach for …

. Moreover, living systems waste heat. This heat is the consequence of the internal irreversibility. Irreversibility is …

formulation the central concept is entropy characterized in terms of equilibrium state variables. We point out that because … thermodynamic changes arise when systems are out of equilibrium and because entropy is not a natural state variable characterizing … resolves some conceptual difficulties related to the interpretation of entropy. We point out that extropy has a fundamental …

We point out that the fundamental irreversibility of Nature requires the introduction of a suitable measure for the … distance from equilibrium. We show that entropy, which is widely held to be such a measure, suffers from the problem that it … basic physics beyond irreversibility has remained obscure. We present here a simple but transparent physical approach for …