Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 1979
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979ap%26ss..65..371l&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 65, p.371
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
Some recent developments in the theory of irreversible processes and nonequilibrium thermodynamics are reviewed. At the macroscopic level, the concept of irreversibility as a source of order, as developed during the last decade, is presented in the context of nonequilibrium phase transitions and dissipative structures. Next, a stochastic theory of rate processes is introduced to study fluctuations, the mechanisms of instability and transition. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of quite recent results on the relation between the deterministic laws of dynamics and the probabilistic description of physical processes
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