Thermal Contact

The concepts of temperature and entropy as applied in equilibrium thermodynamics do not easily generalize to nonequilibrium systems and there are transient systems where thermodynamics cannot apply. However, it is possible that nonequilibrium steady states may have a thermodynamics description. We e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tony Chung, Christopher Angstmann, Gary P. Morriss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2008-12-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/10/4/786/