Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes¶
Prigogine, I. (1967). Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes. Wiley.
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- Dissipation
- The structural insight is robust: a sliding block losing kinetic energy to heated contact surfaces, an electrical conductor turning current into Joule heat, a computer erasing a bit and shedding the corresponding minimum heat, a savanna ecosystem losing roughly 90% of energy at each trophic transfer, and an organizational communication chain whose original signal degrades into noise are all running the same structural calculation: a few organized modes couple to many disordered modes and the structure runs downhill, an architecture Prigogine (1967) generalized through his treatment of entropy production in non-equilibrium systems as a substrate-spanning principle.
This sourceDevelops entropy production in non-equilibrium systems as a substrate-spanning principle, treating dissipation as the organizing rate of irreversible processes across physical, chemical, and biological domains.
- The structural insight is robust: a sliding block losing kinetic energy to heated contact surfaces, an electrical conductor turning current into Joule heat, a computer erasing a bit and shedding the corresponding minimum heat, a savanna ecosystem losing roughly 90% of energy at each trophic transfer, and an organizational communication chain whose original signal degrades into noise are all running the same structural calculation: a few organized modes couple to many disordered modes and the structure runs downhill, an architecture Prigogine (1967) generalized through his treatment of entropy production in non-equilibrium systems as a substrate-spanning principle.
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