SYSTEM (Irreversible)
Charles François (2004). SYSTEM (Irreversible), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 3372.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 3372 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
Any concrete system, as a necessary user of energy, is unavoidably irreversible, as a consequence of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. It may however be dynamically stable (PRIGOGINE's Principle of minimum entropy production) or be far-from-equilibrium and dissipative.
Only models of hamiltonian systems are in principle reversible. But this is possible only in theory or at most for the modelization of relatively simple and strictly deterministic relations.