Irreversible processes at nonequilibrium steady states and Lyapounov functions
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 76 (12), 6060-6061
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.76.12.6060
Abstract
Nonequilibrium stability theory is reviewed. In answer to recent comments by Fox [Fox, R. F. (1979) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, 2114-2117], it is pointed out that various choices of Lyapounov functions are possible in the nonlinear range of irreversible phenomena.Keywords
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