Modeling non-equilibrium dynamics of a discrete probability distribution: general rate equation for maximal entropy generation in a maximum-entropy landscape with time-dependent constraints

DOI10.3390/entropy-e10030010zbMath1179.82083OpenAlexW2109851683MaRDI QIDQ845359

Gian Paolo Beretta

Publication date: 29 January 2010

Published in: Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/entropy-e10030010

zbMATH Keywords

irreversible thermodynamicsfluctuation-dissipation relationsnonlinear dynamical systemsnonequilibrium temperaturenonequilibrium dynamicsmaximum entropy formalismOnsager reciprocityconstrained equilibriumentropy generation by irreversibilitymaximum entropy productionsteepest entropy ascent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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