Externally Driven Macroscopic Systems: Dynamics Versus Thermodynamics

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• 作者：Miroslav Grmela
• 关键词：Thermodynamics ; Statistical mechanics ; Nonequilibrium thermodynamics ; Constitutive relations
• 刊名：Journal of Statistical Physics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：166
• 期：2
• 页码：282-316
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics; Physical Chemistry; Quantum Physics;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1572-9613
• 卷排序：166

文摘

Experience collected in mesoscopic dynamic modeling of externally driven systems indicates absence of potentials that could play role of equilibrium or nonequilibrium thermodynamic potentials yet their thermodynamics-like modeling is often found to provide a good description, good understanding, and predictions that agree with results of experimental observations. This apparent contradiction is explained by noting that the dynamic and the thermodynamics-like investigations on a given mesoscopic level of description are not directly related. Their relation is indirect. They both represent two aspects of dynamic modeling on a more microscopic level of description. The thermodynamic analysis arises in the investigation of the way the more microscopic dynamics reduces to the mesoscopic dynamics (reducing dynamics) and the mesoscopic dynamic analysis in the investigation of the result of the reduction (reduced dynamics).