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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2008-12-01
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Series: | Entropy |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/10/4/786/ |