Lagrange Multipliers in Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics and in Informational Statistical Thermodynamics



Título del documento: Lagrange Multipliers in Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics and in Informational Statistical Thermodynamics
Revista: Brazilian journal of physics
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000309120
ISSN: 0103-9733
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Departamento de Física, Bellaterra, Barcelona. España
Año:
Periodo: Ene
Volumen: 27
Número: N
Paginación: 547-559
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental
Resumen en inglés 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
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: 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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