Abstract:Irreversibility is a critical property of non-equilibrium transport processes. An opinion has long been insisted that the entropy production rate is a Lyapunov function for all kinds of processes, that is, the principle of minimum entropy production. However, such principle is based on some strong assumptions that are rarely valid in practice. Here, the common features of parabolic-like transport processes are discussed. A theorem is then put forward that the dot products of fluxes and corresponding forces ser… Show more
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