Contact Geometry of Mesoscopic Thermodynamics and Dynamics
The time evolution during which macroscopic systems reach thermodynamic equilibrium states proceeds as a continuous sequence of contact structure preserving transformations maximizing the entropy. This viewpoint of mesoscopic thermodynamics and dynamics provides a unified setting for the classical e...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/3/1652 |