Lagrange Multipliers in Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics and in Informational Statistical Thermodynamics



Document title: Lagrange Multipliers in Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics and in Informational Statistical Thermodynamics
Journal: Brazilian journal of physics
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000309120
ISSN: 0103-9733
Authors: 1
Institutions: 1Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Departamento de Física, Bellaterra, Barcelona. España
Year:
Season: Ene
Volumen: 27
Number: N
Pages: 547-559
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Experimental
English abstract We discuss the physical interpretation of the Lagrange multipliers appearing in the information-theoretical description of nonequilibrium steady states characterized by a heat flux or a viscous pressure. Some of the multipliers have a classical counterpart (temperature, pressure, chemical potential, ...) but their equations of state are modified by the fluxes, whereas some others, those which are related to nonequilibrium constraints, do not have an analogous in the equilibrium theory. We give definite results for the Lagrange multipliers, the partition function and the nonequilibrium entropy in some simple simple situations which provide explicit illustrations of their dependence on the fluxes. We end with some comments about the experimental verification of this dependence for the Lagrange multipliers conjugated to the internal energy
Disciplines: Física y astronomía
Keyword: Termodinámica y física estadística,
Multiplicadores de Lagrange,
Función de partición,
Entropía
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Thermodynamics and statistical physics,
Lagrange multipliers,
Partition function,
Entropy
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